North to Greymouth

We spent a couple of nights back at the Hokitika NZMCA park, and walked down to the river mouth.

We have been watching the TV series made from Eleanor Catton’s book, The Luminaries. It was interesting to be at the river mouth where so many ships were wrecked and people drowned in the gold mining days. Hard to imagine on a calm, sunny day.

Next stop was a night in Greymouth at a CampSaver. It was quite close to the town centre. Greymouth is still a sad looking little town, although some efforts have been made to make it look better, including a town square and a new viewing platform out over the river. There were also a number of pounamu memorials to mark some old and not so old events.

Oh, and one commemorating the gold rush.