Tues 22 Feb - The Bushman’s Café at Pukekura, & driving North

It seems frivolous somehow to report on our day as if nothing had happened - most of this was written before we were aware of yesterday's quake, so with much thought, will carry on as usual.

We started our day yesterday with a rainy trip to see Fox Glacier, which was very impressive despite the drizzle


Then started to drive north up the rugged and wild west coast

Around noon, we stumbled across this place -->

Giant sandfly at entrance to most non-pc cafe in the world

Boy, oh boy, did we find a brilliant quirky lunch-stop!

The most delightfully non-PC people we have ever come across.

The Bushman’s café specializes in “road-kill”.

Their motto:   You Kill ‘em: We’ll Grill ‘em.

On the menu today….. Road-kill toasted sandwiches; Bambi-burger; Road-kill Possum Pie; etc, etc.

You get the picture. Most entertaining!

Rick had a regional speciality – whitebait fritter sandwich.

(Am afraid I was boring and had a cheese scone).

Loved the place – very off the wall in such a nanny state – very refreshing.

Just before we left the wild and rugged west coast, we came across these amazing rock formations at Punakaiki

They’re called the Pancake Rocks  (nice layers – mine’s with maple syrup) and blowhole