coolian2 said:
All the way to Greymouth....the 25 minutes we spend wandering there was quite enough for me to take in Greymouth.
I'm glad i convinced my sister to go to the Antarctic Centre, the storm room was fucking awesome, i can safely say i've been as cold as i ever will be, -19 degrees. It was a good comparison because it would have been minus something in the Waimakarere valley yesterday morning.
To say there isn't much to do in Greymouth is an understatement. It actually used to be railfan central, up until the 1970s. It was a railway and shipping town. But now most coal is mined further north and railed over to Lyttelton. Personally, although I've been to Greymouth, it was by car - I've done the TranzAlpine only as far as Arthur's Pass.
Oooh, I remember the storm room. That fucking rocks. I need to go back to Christchurch someday soon. I passed through its airport last June, but that's not really much ...