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After about 4 hours we arrived in Haast to stay the night. Actually there is not much here apart from one Hotel where we are staying and perhaps two or three Motels, two dogs and cat.
We had decided to stay here and booked in advance as the next main town was about a further two hours away and we thought the journey from Twizel to The Glacier Franz Josef would be too long a day and we were right.
We had an early meal of fish and chips at the café in the Hotel, not great, but we have had worse and then drove up the long road to Jackson Bay only to find it was further away than we thought and so we gave up and came back. This place is at the end of the road and basically you cannot go any further South. There is no Mobile/Cell phone coverage here and the Hotel Internet speed (28 minutes to log on,read three emails and replied to two)is well placed amongst the African states. This is a World Heritage Site and one of the few remaining natural areas in the world today. Our part drive down to Jackson bay was like going through a South American rain forest and very remote. The Hotel is fairly basic and expensive for the accommodation but beggars cannot be choosers. The weather forecast for the next few days is pretty good and so we will try to sort out a Scenic Flight in the next day or two.