11.0.1 - 26.01. Gerolstein & Westcoast: Karamea to Hokitika

Vera, Darcy & I

New starter: let´s find a place to stay. Our first woofing place. Guess where? YES, a horse farm!!! I was/am still soooo happy about this! Wendy and Kurt are very kind and it feels similar to coming home, everytime when we come back to the farm. What we did there? Well, much of "shit shoveling", sometimes collecting branches (like today -->we´re are back) and most of the time enjoying our time here! They also took us to some races and even put us on a cart, yeah ; )

However, when you´re travelling you always have to say goodbye and that was what we did, after 2 weeks. We went on over the Lewis-Pass (stunning scenery!!) to Westport and stayed one night at a DOC-Campsite in Karamea. It´s not worth a visti, believe me! Everywhere Sandflies! Uagh!

next Stop: Lake Brunner, lovely! Sightseeing at the Brunner mine (the biggest mine disaster in the New Zealand history happened here) and off we went, meeting Sophia in Greymouth. It gives you such a great feeling to see your traveling friends again! Greymouth is quite nice, though, and we had a good afternoon there.

Now it gets exciting again: 

Next Woofing Place = Hokitika

On our way were the Pancakerocks (very touristic!), where we unfortunately missed low tied. Therefore we didn´t see the blowwhole effect, but it was still quite impressive.