Day started early as usual. I'm dreaming of a day when I can sleep till 10! Did you just notice how I said 10 :) not 1pm ;) Yeah, even 10 would be like heaven at the moment. Anyhoo, I had to catch a shuttle to the train station at 7:15, train leaves at 8:15. TranzAlpine train ride from Christchurch to Greymouth was really nice. Views were breathtaking! Hobbit land truly is great.
There were few unplanned stops here and there, resulting the train to be 10 minutes late in arriving to Greymouth. This was exactly the 10 minutes I needed in order to grab a lunch. Oh well, who needs to eat anyways right ;) Headed over to the bus stop, the bus was late as well - but there was no way to predict the time of arrival so I just stayed put there.
Bus from Greymouth to Franz Josef was a little minivan. It took about 3h to reach the destination. I guess it kept going south towards Fox Glacier as well, so as we all got off the bus one guy was left. He was thinking of going to Fox Glacier but as he saw everybody getting off here he just got off as well. We both ended up at the same hostel as we were wondering around and looking for a place to stay.
Evening consisted of a glowworm walk and a movie :) German guy had borrowed a flashlight and we tracked the location of glowworm habitat down on a map. It was around 8:30 in the evening and it was pitch dark outside. We had to make our way into the woods - oh it was creepy :) First we did not see anything, we kept going deeper and deeper into the woods turning the light off once in a while to try to see the glowy things. Well it was probably just few hundred meters, but in the dark it feels like forever. Finally there they were - there were tens and tens of little bluish lights under the trees, it was so pretty. Looking up there were stars and looking down the glowworms seemed like stars on the ground :) It was really neat.
Watched a movie once back a the hostel and then to bed. Movie was called something "Money", "True Money" perhaps? Point was pretty good, but I've seen much much better movies.
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