Day packed full of wonders

New Zealand just keeps out doing itself.  Pretty sure New Zealand wins for most scenic country on Earth.  The U.S. might have a bigger variety, but New Zealand has a lot packed on two islands.  The coastal highway north of Graymouth is incredible.  Put it on your bucket list and start filling your bucket.  First Kadizzle stopped at the pancake rocks blowhole.  It is just an ocean and rock scene beyond belief.  Will have to put a video on here of it when Kadizzle gets rested.  The ocean waves, which were huge today, bust into, under, over, and around these rocks in the most spectacular fashion.  Can not think of a natural wonder to compare.  After that a short way down the road hiked up an amazing river canyon.  Each hike makes Kadizzle think how nuts Winky would go hiking here.  The hike was amazing. It was like the Grand Canyon with jungle.  The trail went along a nice river where some people were trying to kayak upstream.  It seemed like it would be best to just carry your kayak up as far as you could and come down.  It would be a lot of fun.  Kadizzle hiked maybe two or three miles up the canyon.  Some other hikers said there was a walking cable bridge, but Kadizzle must not have gone far enough.  It seemed there was less problem with stuff overgrowing the trail here than in Arizona.  This South Island would be a hikers paradise and New Zealand does a great job with their trails.

Now here Kadizzle sits in some strange hippie surfing hotel or whatever it is.  The girl who checked Kadizzle in is from the Shetland Islands and has only been here a month. Winky wants to go there so Kadizzle has to interview here extensively.  She said a big busload of people is coming tonight.  They are going to have wood fired pizza and garlic bread. Kadizzle may eat here.  This place is combination hotel and dormitory done in sixties style confusion.  The room seems nice enough and they said they would rent an ebike for thirty dollars per day, which is real reasonable.  May do that tomorrow.  Almost forgot two exciting things on the trail. First was a real live wild Kiwi that walked right up to Kadizzle.  Got a video of it.  Now the second surprise almost required fresh underwear.  A sign on the trail said no stopping, falling rocks.  Kadizzle thought if a rock is going to fall on you what does stopping have to do with it, beside who the hell are they to tell Kadizzle he cannot stop.  So Kadizzle stopped to look around.  Now how in the hell the rock knew to fall is a real mystery, but a huge rock fell from one of the cliffs and hit somewhere in the jungle.  The sound scared Kadizzle the idiot badly. It had to have been a substantial rock.  The strangest thing happened moments before this rock came crashing down. Kadizzle just happened to wonder what this place would be in an earthquake.  It is a huge canyon with very high rocky walls. So right after that thought down comes this rock.  After that lesson in humility Kadizzle moved through the rock zone quickly as told and thanked the sigh after he apologized to it.