Today has been a remarkably crappy day. Zion and Arik think we've been jinked by the fact that we took the keys from "around-the -world" hostel. I have my doubts. Let's strat with the beginning...
So the weather in the morning was still bad, and so we decided to give up on going to Franz Josef glacier. Instead we figured we'd take it easy for a day. So we headed to Hokitika, some 40km south of Greymouth, along the coast. The weather cleared up and we decided to go on some local tracks. After driving for over an hour we realized we had no clue where the tracks were. We stopped near the ocean, and realized that one of the two car keys was gone - the one that opens the doors (the second one is for the ignition and the trunk). Not good. We headed back to Hokitika, as Arik thought we might have dropped it there. I was doubtful. Upon arrival Arik and Zion looked for the key and I mistakenly locked us out. So now we had no key and no way to even drive anywhere. Anyway, after about 30 minutes the key literally miraclously appeared on the ground, thus saving us loads of trouble.
We continued south to Okarito and arrived there around 9:00pm. It was pitch dark and raining. The place has about 30 families, which own several hostels. The hostels were full, except for this one place that had one bed. Arik and Zion figured they's sleep in the car, and I was going to take the bed. Well, to make a long story short the couple in charge thought we were trying to scham them and sneak in, which we weren't. We just wanted to use the kitchen for dinner. They didn't even let us do that, and effectively made us leave, which we did, once I got my money back.
We arrived at Franz Josef (pop. 200) some 30 minutes later, and there again we ran into a nasty guy. All hosteld were closed (Kiwis go to bed early it seems). This guy who ran a BBH hostel wouldn't even check availability, he just said they were closed. When we asked whether we should just sleep outside in the rain standing like horses, he said we could go to the bar....
Fortunately, the girl at the reception at a YHA hostel was very nice and fixed us with some beds, despite the hostel being closed...
Lastly, we met this Jewish Canadian girl, goes by Mira, who is in NZ for 3 months and is about half way through. We talked to her a bit and decided to meet up tomorrow evening and possibly register for a track together.
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