Next, the view down Lake Hawea
Diving to the West coast you go through lots and LOTS of beech forest, very green!
The road seemed to carve avenues through the forest (I guess it didn't just seem to but it did really!). Very spectacular, especially when a mountain appeared through the cut on the forest in front of you...
Si was driving... I was taking WAY too many photos again....
Finally something of interest to you all - The impressive Mt Thomas :P With Thomas Bluff coming down towards the road, and of course Thomas Me too :)
Once we hit the coast, we headed south to the furthest point south you can get to by road (on the West Coast I mean...) Jackson Bay.
Must be said it wasn't the most amazing place - but I guess we'd been spoilt over the last week!
Pictures of pretty things...
What I liked most about this part of the coast was all of the Rimu and Kahikatea swamp forest - really nice to see as there isn't much of this type of forest left in New Zealand...
Then on to the Glaciers -first - Fox Glacier, with Aoraki/Mt Cook behind, and Simon/impersonating signs in front
It really was bigger than I was expecting! And we could get pretty close too 
Not as close as these people though... they were naughty...
Si saw a bit of it fall off, leaving this blue freshly exposed bit of ice! (I was busy investigating the alpine plants... lesson learned!!)
ooOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooo!!
Then on to Lake Matheson - which was a waste of time really as we didn't see anything like this - it wasn't still enough to see anything amazing
Then to Franz Josef Glacier, by which time it was getting dark, but no less impressive!
In the car park after we also met a very inquisitive young Kea, who liked the noise my keys made on the ground. I held onto them tightly!
It was the first time I'd seen one in the wild in 9 years so I was pleased we did - even if it was dark!
Then we drove on to spend the night in Hokitika, before the final push to Nelson the next day...
ooOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooo!!
Then on to Lake Matheson - which was a waste of time really as we didn't see anything like this - it wasn't still enough to see anything amazing
Then to Franz Josef Glacier, by which time it was getting dark, but no less impressive!
In the car park after we also met a very inquisitive young Kea, who liked the noise my keys made on the ground. I held onto them tightly!
It was the first time I'd seen one in the wild in 9 years so I was pleased we did - even if it was dark!
Then we drove on to spend the night in Hokitika, before the final push to Nelson the next day...
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