Since both of us finished the dolphin swim this morning almost totally seasick, the thought of driving over six hours to our next planned destination of Franz Joseph glacier wasn't appealing. We decided to drive just a few hours into the mountains and stop at a little town on the way named Reefton. Reefton ended up being a really cute, backwoods type of town that you could say was "Small town New Zealand" - and if you've been to Alaska, it was very much like a small Alaskan town. There was an "oriental restaurant" and a couple of other restaurants and shops, none of which was open for dinner the weekday evening we were there. That was OK - we weren't too hungry and ended up buying peanut butter, jelly and snacks from a grocery store.
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