Cosy Nook
Next journey for me and my rental was to head South and follow the coast past the southern most point of New Zealand. I found this cool place called Cosy Nook. One of the explorers Captain Goerge Thompson I think retired here about 100 years ago after his world exploration expeditions and named this place after his home in Scotland Cozy Nuek, its a tiny little rocky cove just big enough for 4 fishing boats and a handful of tiny cottages for the fishermen. While I was wondering around there exploring the beach and scrambling over the rockpools I wondered if anyone lived in those cottages and when I was back in the car looking for a hostel in Riverton I wondered what kind of stories they might have to tell. The backpackers in Riverton was cool and fitted in with the area with a kitchen filled with antiques and a wood burner stove. Sitting there trying to figure out how to get the oven working I felt like I had been driven back in time and the biggest thing going was the sheep farming. They put an oil heater in my room and it looked like I had the entire old house to my self, a little creepy. Later on I headed downstairs to the pub expecting to see a few locals sitting at the bar, but instead I found the 3 german guys who shared a dorm room with me the night before up in Te Anau who were supposed to be fishing up there. After finding the rental of the fishing gear too expensive for a backpackers budget they decided to head south and ended up in the same backpackers as me. How cool is that! The only other 2 people in the pub was the bar lady and Mark Young, who actually lives in one of those tiny cottages back in Cosy Nook, and he invited us to go visit him the next day for a cup of tea. So next day me, Florien, Simon and Sebastion met Mark at his cottage for tea, that he made in his 100 year old tea pot and told us stories. On the way there Simon told me about a Honda tv advert that he had worked on that started with a guy riding a classic honda motorbike and changes to more modern bike riding in a different country, but that classic bike was filmed riding along a dirt road in front of this tiny little Cove in the South of New Zealand somewhere and Mark had told him the night before that it was filmed in front of his house, but Simon couldn't believe it until we crossed the cattlegrid and went round the bend onto the dirt road with Cosy Nook popping up infront of us and it looked exactly like the spot where the ad was filmed. We had a pretty cool day, Gyro, as Mark is called by his mates, took us around to his local pub for fresh Blue Cod and chips for lunch. It was funny, when we walked into the pub everyone greeting him by name and he introduced us to the bar lady, while one of the locals was talking about a world record that he was part of when working on this sheep sheering farm. After lunch Mark offered me and Simon a job working for his company designing websites. Not what I was expecting at all, how cool is that. Pitty I'm not looking for work at the moment. We finished the day off by driving onto this beach near Monkey Island with the sun setting over the snowy mountains on the other side of the bay reflecting a rainbow of colours off of the wet sand with the waves crashing in front of us.
Just an incredible day.
Just an incredible day.
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