NZ Part 5 - Hokitika

the plan was to stay the night at Franz Josef and meet up with the rest of the gang there. Along the way, we made a detour to Hokitika gorge. Was a long detour, maybe around 40 mins off the main west coast highway, winding through farmland. the long detour drove our expectations up so it was quite a disappointment when we finally got there and it was not as jaw-droppingly beautiful as we had expected. i think we spent not more than 10 mins there.