chilling out in hokitika
My favorite new zealand theater!
So after we woke up a comfortable distance from Westport we decided to keep heading south along the coast towards the glaciers and see what we could find. The fisrt major town we hit was Greymouth. We decided we should probably try and find a place to shower. It had been 6 days since we showered and well that sandstorm up in golden bay was making us look a little crusty.
We found showers outside a gas station where you could pay 2 dollars for every 4 minutes. It was beautiful.
Greymouth is an old coal mining town, as are a lot of the towns on the west coast. We wanted to do this trek where we could visit old coal mine where there was a huge accident years and years ago. It reminded me of Wesley's song. We didnt get to hike it becasue we couldnt find it, but I still though it was pretty interesting.
After Greymouth we hit Hokitika where we spent most of the day. It was a cute little town and we spent out time milling around some of the shops and wandering around an old used books store. It was right on the beach so we grabbed our books and found a nice place to sit and read for a awhile.
Around 6 or so we grabbed some seats in a little movie theater where they were screening Lars and the Real Girl. It was run by one man who renovated an old bank and set up shop. Its filled with couches and he sold snacks like incredible organic dark chocolate, beer, wine and of course the new zealand preferred cinema snack; jaffas (little chocolate balls with a hard orange flavored outer coating).
Anyways, the movie was really good and I think you can probably rent it in the states at this point.
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