Hokitika

After Franz Josef, we jumped straight into the car and tried to get some dry clothes on and then hit the road to make it to Hokitika.

Hokitika is the jade capital in NZ and is where you can buy many of the traditional jade carvings. We wanted to see how it's done and Phil wanted to get a necklace. When we got there in the evening, we were so tired from our earlier glacier adventure, we went to this lovely pub and had our dinner there.

It was yummy! Phil had the steak and I had rack of lamb. I never had a rack of lamb before, and I didn't think it would be like a whole set of lamb ribcage! I thought you'd get two pieces but instead they give you EIGHT! There is no way one person can eat that - plus potato plus veggies! I did my best but had to give up ...

The next day I woke up with a tooth ache - unrelated to the rack of lamb I think - but nonetheless painful. I kind of put up with it as we wandered around the town but it didn't really go away...

Phil found a lovely necklace of a NZ silver fern made out of mother of pearl. It's very pretty! Other than that, there isn't much to do in Hokitika so we went and had a look around Greymouth and then went on down to Nelson.