Hokitika – Pancake Rocks – Motueka – Abel Tasman, New Zealand
Another day’s entry which Guillermo the Argentinian hitchiker should have written…
I’m taking over again. Hokitika = awesome Western cowboy sorta town. Famous for Whitebait and gold panning. Having no clue what Whitebait was, Hanna and I went ahead and ordered a Whitebait patty. Turned out to be small maggot-like fish.
When we had breakfast, we saw a couple of men digging by the beach and placing the sand into a machine. Turned out these guys were digging for gold. They’re also keen to explain the whole process and went as far as showing how gold panning works. As one of the guy kept adding water into and moved the pan around in circular motion, I thought that these suckers were wasting their time. But blimey, soon enough, lo and behold, yellow glitters started showing up on the edge of the pan. I guess I was the fool. The men told us that on a good day like today, they might end up with one ounce of gold dust, which equals to about $1,750 NZ dollars. Hmmm, maybe I should just stay in Hokitika.
Our drive towards Abel Tasman brought us pass Pancake Rocks. The rock formation is quite interesting; a result of sendiment built-up from under the sea… I think… don’t quote me though.
I wonder how much information I can retain after all the travel. I thought I learnt a whole lot about glaciers when visiting the Glaciarium (Glacier Museum) in Argentina but if you were to ask me anything, I can only tell you they’re formed of snow. Guess that’s why I can never be a travel writer.
Another place that we stopped at was Buller’s Gorge Adventure Park. Bad idea. It’s the saddest adventure park ever. Worst $5 ever spent for the admission fee. All we got was this picture of the longest swing bridge in NZ:
Day 280: Fool’s Gold
Hokitika – Pancake Rocks – Motueka – Abel Tasman, New Zealand
Another day’s entry which Guillermo the Argentinian hitchiker should have written…
I’m taking over again. Hokitika = awesome Western cowboy sorta town. Famous for Whitebait and gold panning. Having no clue what Whitebait was, Hanna and I went ahead and ordered a Whitebait patty. Turned out to be small maggot-like fish.
When we had breakfast, we saw a couple of men digging by the beach and placing the sand into a machine. Turned out these guys were digging for gold. They’re also keen to explain the whole process and went as far as showing how gold panning works. As one of the guy kept adding water into and moved the pan around in circular motion, I thought that these suckers were wasting their time. But blimey, soon enough, lo and behold, yellow glitters started showing up on the edge of the pan. I guess I was the fool. The men told us that on a good day like today, they might end up with one ounce of gold dust, which equals to about $1,750 NZ dollars. Hmmm, maybe I should just stay in Hokitika.
Our drive towards Abel Tasman brought us pass Pancake Rocks. The rock formation is quite interesting; a result of sendiment built-up from under the sea… I think… don’t quote me though.
I wonder how much information I can retain after all the travel. I thought I learnt a whole lot about glaciers when visiting the Glaciarium (Glacier Museum) in Argentina but if you were to ask me anything, I can only tell you they’re formed of snow. Guess that’s why I can never be a travel writer.
Another place that we stopped at was Buller’s Gorge Adventure Park. Bad idea. It’s the saddest adventure park ever. Worst $5 ever spent for the admission fee. All we got was this picture of the longest swing bridge in NZ: