We’re on the way to Queenstown today. It’s about 4 hours from Franz Josef township to Q
ueenstown, but we decided to take a small detour to Jackson Bay. Both Robyn and Sally from the Arorere recommended it. Jackson Bay is basically at the end of the road and was once a special settlement that the NZ government tried to establish. However, it was very unsuccessful due to crop-rotting amounts of rain and difficulty building a port. Today, there’re only a couple of families that live Jackson Bay. If you wanted to survive in the early days (and even today), you had to be quite resourceful. It felt very remote and isolated, but it had amazing views of the Southern Alps.
Heading back toward civilization, we were on our way across the Southern Alps via the Haast Pass. The drive was beautiful with turquoise rivers, water falls and steep mountains. We stopped at the Blue Pools, 
which was a 30 min hike from the road. The Blue Pools is where two rivers met, where you were supposed to see huge rainbow and brown trout. We didn’t see any trout because it was the wrong time of the year. We did see some French guy splashing around in the cold water though. It was amazing how blue the water was. It’s almost unnatural, like someone put turquoise tiles in the rivers and lakes of NZ. The water is just very clear here.
ueenstown, but we decided to take a small detour to 
which was a 30 min hike from the road. The Blue Pools is where two rivers met, where you were supposed to see huge rainbow and brown trout. We didn’t see any trout because it was the wrong time of the year. We did see some French guy splashing around in the cold water though. It was amazing how blue the water was. It’s almost unnatural, like someone put turquoise tiles in the rivers and lakes of NZ. The water is just very clear here.
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