New Year's Eve - West Coast from Pancake Rocks to Franz Josef

Our campsite was great. After the we got rid of the dodgy kid, everything was nice. It was a bit sandfly infested, but that is to be expected on the South Island. In the morning we had a quick breakfast and then started our journey south along the West Coast.

More photos with GPS maps here.

Lexey at a random West Coast beach called Woodpecker Bay:


Along the way we came to Pancake Rocks so of course we stopped:


We made it to Greymouth for lunch. We tried to go to the Monteith's brewery for some food, but they don't serve food so we tried to go to the Kingsgate Hotel which the brewery recommends for their beers, but they don't serve lunch. We ended up at a Speight's Ale House in a cool old building. Kinda disappointing that finding a good place for a Monteith's in Greymouth for lunch is difficult. The brewery:


A few hours later we were in Franz Josef, at the foot of the Southern Alps:


Lexey made a great dinner with an incredible view, we relaxed a bit, and went out to see the glow-worms. The photos of the glow-worms didn't come out very well though.