Red Hill Mining Town

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We stayed with two other guests from Sydney in Reefton, and they told us about two B&Bs near the glaciers which we booked at the local I-Site. We left Reefton and stopped in Greymouth, which was a nice sized town that reminded us of both Aberdeen and Bellingham in Washington State.

Continuing on, we visited Ross Gold Fields, a mining town that mined gold up until the 1980s. There is a nice museum and hike around the mines; plus a gift shop with everything you could want for a guy named Ross.

We stayed in a B&B on a farm a the base of a still-snowcapped mountain - Mount Adam Lodge. It was a beautiful setting - not really in any town, just out in the New Zealand wilderness. We talked for hours with the owners - a semi-retired couple and their granddaughter. The weather was rainy but the scenery and company were good.

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Photos

Greymouth Mural
Really cool mural of the century's stories on the newspaper building.

Sheep Approaching
There didn't seem to be more sheep in New Zealand than in any other farming community.

L and P Soda
It's a strange flavor, kind of like Rivella in Switzerland and a little like Martinelli's Apple Cider.

Comments

[angela]

cheeky sign
love it! love to see the sheep and CM as a gold robber! hahah lol