19/9/09 Moana (Arthurs Pass)

19/9/09
Left Westport & trucked down the coast onto Punakaiki where a short walk led us to the Pancake Rocks. Not very impressed really, didn't think the rocks stacked up looked anything like pancakes! Not good travellers really! Weather still not too good so we went onto Greymouth, stopped to get food supplies & bumped into both couples from the A.Tasman kayak trip in the same supermarket, well funny! Had a chat with them, then went to the info centre, found out that the Great Alpine Railway through Arthur's Pass was best during the winter & snow so binned that idea & drove out to A.Pass ourselves to have a look. Not much there, had a beer in a very old hotel where the land lady told us about the famous whitebait, you have them in an omelet, best without flour added & they guaranteed 20g per fritter. They are smaller than our whitebait & are transparent you could just see the eyes! Yuck not very appetizing but about 80 NZD/kilo!!
Decided to stay the night at Lake Brunner(Moana) as Greymouth was not that great. Arrived, parked up & had a walk by the lake, it was really quiet here, not much going on.