Travel day

We are scheduled to leave Greymouth on the train at 12:45pm....back to Christchurch by 7pm tonight. It stopped raining--whew--but is still very cloudy. We'll see what we can see on the train :-)

No exaggeration, my amateur meteorological calculations estimate 5 inches of rain while we were here. It's a rain forest!! 

Here's a look at the view as we came east across the mountains. It was snowing and much colder than when we went west a few days ago.