Scrapyard entrance

Buller Gorge

Coffee in Reeftown

We had a super stay at Wakefield in a fishing lodge where we cooked our own supper and ate it on the veranda looking over the fields, watched over by a herd of cattle. So peaceful and we were made very welcome by the owner Peter Warren, sadly no time to fish with him as we  had nearly 300 miles to drive to Fox Glacier. On the way we passed many wonderful views, Bullers Gorge and as you can see some odd things too at the entrance to a local scrap yard.

We stopped for coffee at Reeftown, a pretty mining village, pretty much unchanged with a couple of old time miners still working as you can see. We stopped for our picnic at Hikataki, luckily the sun came out too then at around 6 pm we arrived at Reflections Lodge where there is a pond in the front garden and you can actually see Mount Cook peeping over the Alps. A few photos but it’s hard to do justice to the place. It was cloudy the night we arrived but next morning bright sunshine and we were able to see the mountains with snow on the top sparkling in the sun. We set off to explore the Fox Glacier, which is very impressive as you can see but not a mint in sight! More walking and a picnic filled the day and it’s early to bed as we have another long drive tomorrow to get to the Fiord Country.