(I especially like seeing the map in TERRAIN VIEW!)
We made the 10 AM Service at All Saints:
Left there at noon - then drove through some beautiful countryside:
We made the Arthur's Pass National Park Visitor Centre a little after 2
I went to get some petrol, then we went through the Pass to see the Otira Viaduct:
Very Impressive Road Construction - those gray streaks on the mountains are rock slides, where hillsides just give way after a rain or an earth tremor.
We stopped at Otira Valley (a side valley running west from the north-south highway),but did not hike because of the bad weather:
Back in Arthur's Pass Village, I let Wendy out for a cup of tea (and, it turns out, some french fries!); while I went back to see the Devils Punchbowl Falls
they look PRETTY COOL from a distance:
the trail has its ups-and-downs through a rain-forest environment:
before finally arriving at the Falls:
My last photo of Arthur's Pass is of this side-trail named Scott's Track - the sub-title says "to Avalanche Peak" - HOLD ME BACK!!:
It took us about an hour to get down the road to our B&B in Springfield (which is 44 minutes from Christchurch airport tomorrow morning). We unloaded everything, then packed it all up appropriately, then had a nice dinner out (fish-and-chips). THANK YOU GOD for these wonderful adventures in these Beautiful Places!!
Music today - music from my silver nano:
Air Traffic Controller - NORDO, 2012
American Authors - Oh, What A Life, 2014
The Allman Brothers Band - One Way Out, 2003 (cd 1-of-2)
Jackson Browne - Hold Out, 1980
It sounded so good, we listened to it twice!
Lorde - The Love Club (EP), 2013
Since Lorde is from New Zealand, it seems appropriate that we end this trip with her.
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