Down the west coast

So I think I'm figuring out that you need to load the pictures first and write later. Yeah, I'm dumb, but am ok with that. Even dumber after looking at the preview and seeing that I screwed something up.

Anyhow, I just arrived in Westport on the upper northwest coast. My plan is to make my way down south and possibly head back down towards the Wanaka area. If I recall it's about 600 kms or so down that way. Pray for good weather and sandflies to find other people to bite. Ha!

After leaving Wanaka 3 days ago I headed to Christchurch for a couple of days and caught the Ben Harper / Pearl Jam concert. Fantastic. Eddie Vedder and crew sang over 25 songs and Ben put on a pretty good show to boot. High light was during Ben's stint on stage when Eddie came out to help him cover Under Pressure. Couldn't have picked a better song to duo.

Stopped at the Clay Cliffs (middle left) on the way over to Chch. Other pics are from today's stop over at Castle Rocks, just east of Arthur's Pass, which lies in the middle of the Southern Alps on the way to the west coast. I was dreaming of spending some time here (as you can see in my zen moment from up close and afar), gorgeous limestone, climbing etc, etc. That will be my next trip or I'll just have Jason spend a small fortune and send my climbing gear from Seattle. Hope everyone is well and had a lovely T-day. Miss you all.