Another day of driving - another series of serious bends in the road. How I long for a long straight road and a 120 km speed limit! Drove to Hokikita today. Despite having an unpronounceable name, a beach and a large Catholic church, there is nothing to recommend Hokikita. there is a glow worm glen, but I don't think we'll hang around long enough to see it. forgot to mention, in Westport there are some underground limestone caves with glow worms in them. You can walk through them, or go rafting. However, Westport's idea of rafting is putting you in a tyre and pushing you into the water! They don't even provide paddles.
Stopped at the pancake rocks on the way to Hokikita. they were amazing and well worth the visit. They are limestone cliffs, surge pools and blowholes worn away by the sea. Saw white fronted terns nesting on the rocks, as well as black oyster catchers (they look. ed like that but were hunting the tern chicks) and black backed gulls. Also saw a very friendly Weika, which was amazing. Ate our lunch and played Brian Train on the blowhole lookout. got some strange looks, as we had to hide under jackets to see the screen. Had sea spray blowing on our faces. Feeling very proud that I crossed a scary bridge and climbed some steep steps to see the pancakes. It was well worth it.
2 comments:
I wish you had a map on the blog, and a little tracker filling in your route as you went along!
Did you try out the paddle-less tyre??
What age are you now?
Impressed by your bravery, I always avoid scary bridges, glad it was worth it, What is a Weika?
A girl from work did the tyre journey into the cave with glow worms she said it was really good, a highlight of her visit....Looking forwrad to hear about the next destination
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