We woke up the next day, checked out, and got on the road, heading for a town on the East coast called Kaikoura. I don’t know what the entire name means, but I know ‘Kai’ is Maori for ‘food,’ and the place has a legend attached to it- it is where a Maori demigod anchored his foot to catch a whale in the sea. Before we began our drive, we headed to an area called Waikoropupu springs. These springs boast the clearest freshwater in the world (supposedly). Looking in, I would believe the claims; it looked as though there was but a thin film of glass over the bottom, and nothing more. Everything was completely clear and detailed- it made a fine morning stop.
The rest of the day was again driving. We arrived in Kaikoura in late afternoon, just in time to check into our Backpacker lodge and see the sun set between the snowcapped mountains, the first snow we had seen since the glacier. It was a glorious sight- to make it better, we sat outside in the free spa after dinner and stared at the magnificent mountains as the full moon rose and illuminated the snow.
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