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After a nice comfortable sleep in our double room in Westport it was up early to have one of the funniest and best days travelling!! We left Westport 9:30am and arrived at Cape Foulwind 20 minutes later. Here did a 1 hour walk along the cliff top overlooking untouched west coast beaches. After 40 minutes walking in sunshine we got to the main attraction the colony of Seals. There must have been arround 200 of them having a morning play on the rocks and small pools it really blew us away how big and playful they are just amazing!!
Another hour down the road and after a beautiful drive along the coast line and rainforest and beautiful lookouts we came to Punikaiki where the famous Pancake Rocks live. There called the Pancake Rocks bcause they blow out water when the tide is high but unfortunately they did not work today so as a substitute and a good one at that we were amazingly lucky to have a pod of 40 Hector Dolphins some of the rarest in the world swimming near the lookout again amazing!!! We left here just after 12.30pm on a high and went to our last stop Greymouth. Nothing special here just a chance to go to a supermarket and get some money from the ATM as were going to be out in the country for the next 3 days.
As we left Greymouth the bus brokedwon and we ended up in the pub playing pool all afternoon and getting drunk. Eventually a replacment bus turned up and we headed to our last stop Lake Mahinapua which was remote to say the least!! Here we had a party organised and the boys had to cross-dress and the girls had to design a costume out of bin-liners!! We had dinner and we all got dressed Ben looked terrible in Ria's pink and green bikini with a small dress!! But he didn't win the competition as some of the boys could have passed for women in most places it put Thailand to shame!! Ria looked great in her Bin bag and the party atmosphere was great. As you can imagine the rest of the night was a blur and the hangover the next day didn't help!!
What a day!!.......Next stop Franz Josef!!
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