Rivendell! I mean... Hokitika!

After a very easy but long ride, we are in a big (4000 people) city and we have decided to give us a very deserved pampering. We've gotten instead of a backpackers lodge or a camping, a chalet on the beach with spa bathtub and very nice beds. It is for us the Rivendell that we need to gather forces, as the toughest part of the journey is right in front of us. In two days time, we'll attempt to face Carhadras himself! I mean... Arthur's Pass. The climb has been scarified by anyone we've met and I think it is going to be too hard. In any case, the quest is the quest!

In a second important bit of news, Josele has decided not to climb Carhadras, I mean... Arthur's Pass. He had flu before New Year's Eve and wants to give it a day to recover, so he'll get a bus from Greymouth. That means that tomorrow we'll split and meet again at the top of Carhadras, if He'll let us pass.
I will let you know how it went from there!

(edit from Josele) While in Hokitika, we saw the Glow Worm Dell (the New Zealand West Coast is a great place to see them, and we also saw them in Milford Sound). The glow worms are the larvae of the fungus fly; they glow during the night to attract insects and eat them... I have not brought a tripod, so I could not take a nice picture of what we saw (something like a sky full of tiny stars), but here is one I found in Internet and describes well the view. I found the picture in http://blog.justcheaphotel.com/news/glow-worms

(edit from Josele 2) I forgot to say I also saw two live kiwis in Hokitika's Kiwi Center. As they are nocturnal birds, it was forbidden to take photos from them... It is a very strange bird, with a lot of features common to mammals... They are a very endangered species nowadays, as the rats, stoats (type of weasel), cats and dogs that were introduced by humans easily prey on them... A photo of this strange bird that I found in https://bcsengage.wikispaces.com/E2G5+Extreme: