Travelled quite quickly through Franz just stopping to walk up to the glacier.Stopped for the night in Hokitika and stayed at a hostel run by someone I was in school with, so spent the evening chatting.Left Hokitika and travelled on to Greymouth, just stopping to pop in and visit Kev, another person we knew from the Wales but who moved here about 8 years ago.Moved on from Greymouth and stopped again to see the pancake rocks as last time we past them it was raining.

Our next stop was Seddonville where we did a tour of the Stockten open cast mine which was really interesting.At the mine they had some of the largest digging machines in the world, which are massive when you stand next to them.While camping at Seddonville we met a Welsh guy and his Japanese wife (Richard and Takako) and decided to travel with them for a few days as they are travelling the same way as us.