Will this morning we got off to a bit of a false start with having travelled for 15 minutes past the last set of traffic lights for the 200 km or so before Queenstown and having stopped to fill the Magic Bus up with diesel we had to return to Nelson to pick up 4 people who had been left behind.

[thumb:1275:r][thumb:1276:r]The best stop of the day was the Punakali rocks.  It was amazing tha the rocks were just layered like pancakes.[newline]

The stop for the night, Greymouth, itself didn’t have much to offer other than it was there and the end of the railway line over from Christchurch. 

Having left my bags at the YHA I went off on the Brewery tour at the Monteiths Brewery joining up with Briony, Roxie and Bev again.  Quite an aroma and a suprise in the amount of caustic they use for cleaning stuff.  [thumb:1280:rl][thumb:1285:r] A surprise for me was that though the hops are grown in New Zealand with some of the barley coming from the Canterbury plains they also import barley from the UK to make Kiwi beer.

[thumb:1291:r]Afterwards we stopped off for an all you could eat BBQ and a spot of dancing.  However after 4 sausages I knew that I wasn’t up for trying at the record for 36 sausages eaten.