Today was very much a travel day so not too much to report. The highway turns inland for much of the trip between Greymouth and Haast passing through the towns of Franz Josef and Fox Glacier village. Both are very much tourist towns with many souvenir shops and cafés. Lots of tour buses coming and going. As one approaches Franz Josef, the large mountains making up the spine of the South Island suddenly pop into view. They are significantly higher than the mountains we had been seeing to that point as they were snow covered. Very similar to the Rockies in grandeur. Eventually, the highway returns to running alongside the ocean. Just before one gets to Haast, there is a bridge crossing the Haast river that is 700 metres long and it is a single lane bridge with 2 turnouts so that the vehicles which do not have the right of way can pull to the side to allow those that do have the right of way to continue over the bridge. As a way of explanation, there are hundreds of bridges in NZ that are single lane bridges and the approaches to the bridge on either side clearly instruct which side has the right of way when 2 vehicles get to the bridge at the same time. It seems to work very well. The instructions are a simple circle with 2 arrows, one pointing up and one pointing down. The arrow you must pay attention to is the one which is the larger of the 2. If the larger arrow points down, then the car on the other side of the bridge has the right of way. If the larger arrow points up, then you have the right of way. There are many interesting highway signs we have seen. One had the words "Wrong Way" and underneath it was written the words "Go Back". When there is a situation where traffic is merging, there is a sign that says "Merge Like a Zip" which makes sense if you consider how a zipper works. We have seen speed signs that show speeds on a speedometer above the 100 km top speed in NZ with $$ signs in front of the numbers so that 110 is $110 and 120 is $120 signifying that going over the speed limit is going to cost you. Another sign, instead of having $$ signs next to the numbers above 100 there were crosses next to the numbers. Very innovative ways of getting the message across. After dinner tonight, we drove down to a small fishing village called Jackson Bay because there were supposed to be Fiordland Crested penguins roosting there but unfortunately they did not return from sea before we had to leave so we would not be coming into the campground after dark.Jackson Bay is 48 kilometers from the campground at the end of the longest straight flat road I have ever seen in NZ. When we arrived back at the campsite, we discovered our Danish friends had arrived there too, having decided that the 2 glaciers were vastly over rated and disappointed that the one hike they wanted to do was closed. Tomorrow we will travel over Haast Pass eventually ending up in Queenstown. Thought you all might like to know the temperature here today was 20 Celsius.