Our destination today was Franz Josef. The drive through the mountains to the coast was another especially pretty drive. But the real excitement started as we left Haast with the West Coast Highway offering some obstacles, no other road we had seen so far, during our drive. The special features of this road are the one lane bridges. There was even a one lane bridge that had railway tracks running straight where we were driving on, I imagine the train receives the right of way. The day was brilliantly beautiful, blue skies with wisps of high white clouds and the only thing that worried us was the forecast for rain the next day. Come on, we are skydiving tomorrow... well, are hoping we are anyway.
I though Franz Josef would be larger in size, but it is a small village with 2 streets dotted with accommodations, restaurants and bars. We booked our flight for the next day for our first skydiving adventure. We only had to hope that the weather would work out for us.
We stayed at the Rainforest Retreat, they had a special offer through Spaceships. This place had it all. Rooms, tree-houses, campsites, bar, etc... We had a pizza in town and then I set Tegan up with a movie and went to watch the quarter final games. This place was pretty happening, not sure if it was like this all the time or if it was just because of the RWC. Tegan finished a couple of movies and then wandered into the bar and hung out with me for the remainder of the game. The games were really great to watch and New Zealand came out on top, so the Kiwis celebrated into the night while Tegan and I walked to our campervan in the rain, ready to welcome the new day and hopefully some sunshine.
