day 5 ...

 

4 pages of photos for day 5.  Follow the links at the bottoms of the pages.

 

As we check out of the hotel, I get a morning photo of the ocean, directly behind us.

 

Leaving Hokitika.

 

 

These photos are from a wayside with a public restroom where we stop.

 

Heading into the mountains.  All of these mountains on the south island are the Southern Alps.

 

I look to my right as we drive, and see something in the distance that looks like a glacier.  I decide it can't be, though, because I've never seen one, so how would I know that's what this is, and also what are the odds of just looking over and seeing a glacier.

 

But it is a glacier!  James and I hike up to a lookout point so I can get some good photos.

 

 

 

 

The trees alongside the ocean on the west coast all have a permanent wind-blown look.

 

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