Day 16 - Saturday 5th may Left the hostel around 10ish, it was absolutely pouring with rain - boohoo :-(!!!! Picked up Gem + Kee's coats from the Franz Josef office as they were bit silly and left them there day before after the Glacier walk! Sarah drove today. We headed toward Hokitika, a smallish town further north, just south of greymouth. We drove across some plains, but most of the drive was forested, windy, hill roads! We stopped off at a little carving shop of a local craftsman - it was very expensive, mostly carved out of greenstone + bone - some of the carvings were created from some of the oldest found un-fossilised whale bone. We found a backpackers hostel at 'Hoki'. It was called the 'Blue Spur Lodge' and was quite a way
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