The main attraction of Hanmer Springs is a thermal park with swimming pools, but as we had done this at Alpine Springs (which lots of people said was much better than the one here in Hanmer because there were no views and it got very packed full of lots of people) we decided to save our money and headed for a walk part way up Mount Isobel.
The walk was about 4 hours and after the first couple of hours of climbing through forest and over rivers we encountered thousands of wasps which feed from the native Mountain Beach trees. They didn’t harm us at all so we ended up not noticing them at all.
We arrived at the Dog Stream Waterfall which was very impressive at 41 meters tall!
The day had brightened up for the walk back down and we enjoyed the views as we walked. Towards the bottom of the track we bumped into an American couple who had a car and offered to take us the last 5km back to Hanmer. We were tired and it was very hot so we kindly accepted.
Once back in the town we headed to the library where we booked a trip when we are in Oz (Great Ocean Road) and also a flight to get to Sydney.
We got back to the hostel and chilled out with some free ice cream. We used our last potatoes to make some wedges before we got back on the bus bound for Christchurch once more, for our last night in NZ. The 2 hours drive was really pretty with mountains a range of large boulders that looked like frogs – bizarre! Before long we were back in Christchurch. The bus dropped us and it was a 30 minute walk with our heavy backpacks to the YMCA hostel again. By the time we got there we were shattered so put on a film on before falling asleep.
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