Beaches, Pancakes, Breweries and a Stag party!

Praying for gold!
During the stag party we got a little hungry and had to 'drive thru' the drive thru to get some McD Burgers!
Truman Track
Pancake rocks
Cape Foulwind coastline
Leaving Nelson we headed down the coast and stopped off on a few small 'tramps' along the way. The first stop was Cape Foulwind which was an incredible beach with crashing waves and seals with their pups romping on the rocks below. Next stop was Truman Track, more crashing waves and incredible views after a 15 minute tramp down hill and finally the Punakaiki Pancake Rocks and Blowholes with Hokey Pokey ice cream! Here they had even bigger crashing waves and amazing rock views. The rocks themselves looked like actual stacked pancakes and were huge. It was simply amazing and again the views were incredible!

That night my Turkish/German friend, Semra, and I went off to the Monteith's Brewery Tour in Greymouth. Not that I am a big beer fan but there isn't much else to do in this town and I've been on a few wine tours but never a beer tour. Very interesting and we got to do some taste testing at the end and found a Shandy flavoured one I didn't mind too much! We ended off at the Royal Hotel for a buffet dinner and then some how got involved with the gang at 'Ellie May's' Stag party. Danced and partied into the wee hours of the night so Greymouth ended up not being quite so boring as everyone else had told us!

Up early the next morning after a couple of hours sleep and stopped into Ross Goldfields where there has been major gold discoveries and tried my luck. Sadly I only found about a dozen flakes and a couple of tiny pieces of jade.