Our first Hitchhiker
Okay, this post was supposed to go up almost a week ago, but I’ve had limited access to internet!
We picked up our first hitchhiker!!!
Alan and Hila at the Clay Cliffs
Hila is from Israel and has been traveling for 2 months in New Zealand; we picked her up in Oamaru before our four-hour drive to Queenstown. The countryside in this area is simply breathtaking. The highway is surrounded by looming mountains, lush green fauna and rambling rivers. We made a brief stop at some Maori Rock paintings, and hiked through brush to see the Clay Cliffs. These rock formations were carved out of the landscape by two million years of erosion on layers of silt and gravel, that were exposed along the active Osler fault line.
We dropped off Hila in Omarama and then stopped in a little area called Cromwell to taste some local wines.