After Kaikoura, which is in the northeast area of the south island, we made our way across to the northwest area to continue the rest of our trip which would go down pretty much the entire west coast of the island. I will admit that some of these photos are from the drive to Kaikoura, since we got little lost along the way and accidentally headed inland instead of north at one point. I guess it was bound to happen sometime since we almost never had service to use GPS on our phones!
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| A postcard-worthy view of Lewis Pass, a region about halfway between the two coasts. Here we got a kick out of the sign which actually listed the path to this point as a two minute hike. |
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| 3/5 of KARMA looking out at the lake. |
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| Our first glimpse of snow in New Zealand! |
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| More snow! So naturally we took a selfie with it. |
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| Trees trees trees from a cool walk we found by randomly stopping along the drive. In the same walk we found a bunch of springy moss that we could bounce on, I almost didn't make the jump across a mini crevasse in the track, and Alexandra nearly fell into a creek while climbing a tree (sadly I don't have pictures of any of these). |
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| Did I mention that we did our trip in a camper van this time? It was so nice to have a kitchen instead of having to sit on the ground around our camping stove, and look at how much leg room we have! The van was actually ridiculously long; the people in the back sometimes had to shout to get the attention of the people in the front and vice versa. |
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| Rolling hills, cool clouds, and of course some sheep: a classic scene of New Zealand along the drive. |
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| A shot of our campervan, Eddie, in the campsite we stayed at not too far from our next destination, Punakaiki. We arrived at the campsite in the dark, so it was really cool to wake up surrounded by giant snow capped mountains, as shown in the background of this picture. |