Some advice I received before embarking on this journey was to try some Bluff oysters.....well, we arrived in Bluff, on the very southern tip of the South Island, on a Sunday evening and everything was shut down.....so, I kept my eyes open all along the coast (and tried many OTHER delicious oysters along the way :)....and pretty much forgot about it.....Lo and behold, as we're entering Auckland, I see a sign for Bluff oysters posted in front of a Tip Top ice cream shop.....needless to say, I stopped and, the owner also "shouted" (turned us on to) some smoked eel...I must say, though, that the weirdest thing I ate here was "whitebait"- a West Coast- South Island delicacy....it usually comes in an egg fritter....and is a bunch of tiny fish (like it sounds)...when I noticed the pepper sprinkled on top, was actually not pepper....I realized it was the WHOLE fish...they were eyes....yeah.
Anyway, I was talking about advice, and thought I'd share some of our favorite bits of advice....
1) If you don't breathe, your windows won't fog up. (in Te Anua, the day before we left for the Milford Track when a DOC worker spotted us wiping the INSIDES of our windows so we could see to drive- as much moisture inside the van as outside!)
2) If you keep moving, the sandflies won't bother you (anywhere on the West Coast of the South Island)
3) "Oh, sure you'll be fine!.....until your van breaks down. (what the Aussie version of Click and Clack replied when we asked what they thought of the funny noise coming from our engine)...you know the rest of the story.
4) Do come back - and bring your family! Would love to. We've all said that Colorado would be paradise if we had the beach at the base of the mountains.......
Gotta go pack.....
Cheers!
No comments:
Post a Comment