Warm and sunny West Coast!

We made it Punakaiki on the west coast of the South Island and the weather has finally gotten warm and sunny! The coastline is beautiful here, so we’ve spent a couple of days checking out the beaches and the Pancake Rocks (see photo below.) Scott finally got to surf today (good thing as he’d been getting a bit grumpy) and hopefully there will be more good surf to come in the next few days.

We stopped to see the glaciers on the way up the west coast, the Fox and Franz Josef. Neither of us were really excited to see them but we figured we ought to stop since they were on the way. Turns out we were quite impressed, it’s amazing to see a giant icefall in the middle of a rainforest. And we briefly caught a glimpse of Mt Cook and Mt Tasman through the clouds and got to see their reflections in Lake Matheson (a classic NZ postcard shot.)


Pancake Rocks at Punakaiki
















Reflections in Lake Matheson
















Franz Josef Glacier