Greymouth, Karamea

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Today we drove up from Westport to Karamea about 95K. It is truly the Wild, Wet West. There are a lot of old gold and coal mines. They call it coaling in clouds. We then drove down to Greymouth. This is the largest city on the West Coast of the South Island (About 13,000). It has the feel of the Iron Range towns in Minnesota, sort of Virginia, MN on steroids (with the mountains and the Tasman Sea).
We went to an old Union Hotel for supper and as the Kiwi would say, “had a Lovely meal”.

Kiwi word for the day is slicker. This is what you put in your Chilly Bin to keep it cold.

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Photos

Karamea
This is the Last Resort in Karamea. Same name as the resort we stay at in Canada.