Note To Future Self

Anna recently accumulated a few hours of comp time, so we decided to take a 3-day weekend and see the West coast of South Island.

As a prejudiced East-coaster, it’s easy to say there’s a whole lot of beautiful nothing on the West coast. That’s not entirely true, of course. There are glaciers

and there’s a whole lot of rain. 15 meters per year, in some places.

Luckily we planned ahead and our outdoors activities avoided most of the latter.

But we still got our fair share.

Total tally: 1027km of driving, two glaciers, a whole mess of hiking, two wonderful nights in the tiny village of Okarito (and one merely nice night in Hokatika), and one meal of fish-and-chips. Oh, and tui, fantail, glow worms. Neat!