So this is what awake is like
At last i'm feeling like i can function again - which is a relief. Booked myself onto a kiwi experience bus on thursday and spent the rest of the day doing organisational type stuff preparing to leave christchurch. Felt seriously bad yesterday, my bus was leaving at 7 in the morning but combination of jetlag and a serious case of over sleeping anxiety meant i woke up at 3am and couldn't get back to sleep... uurrrggghh. Well I made it onto the bus anyway. We cut across the Southern Alps to the west coast. The land scape goes through a transformation of english looking farmland to scottish highland to alpine forest to rain forest in about 2 hours driving. Its pretty incredible so much diversity is in such a small place. Once we had crossed to the west coast we joined up with a bigger bus and made our way south. We stopped for the night at 'the poo pub'. This is basically a collection of shacks and a bar run by the this old bearded NZ guy who literally has not left the place for several hundred years. Anyway we had a 'beach party' there in the evening and a big steak meal. I was feeling pretty bad so wasn't really up to the antics - starting to feel old already..... Anyways, today we carried on down the coast stopping at a couple of places - a museum showing men jumping out of helicopers to catch deer and a gold panning/paintball place. Needless to say i am currently peppered with bruises. Tommorow i'll be climbing the glacier here so looking forward to that! Still no photos i know - should be able to sort them out when i get to queenstown in a few days.
posted by justplainnigel @ 2:16 PM
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