Greymouth New Zealand 2022

Welcome to a virtual tour of Greymouth the largest town on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island the tour begins at sunrise viewed from the entrance of the Grey River looking up the Grey Valley with the mist flowing over the hills and down the Grey River then we take a walk and look at the Southern Breakwater viewing platform at the entrance to the Grey River from the Tasman Sea then a drive through the Greymouth CBD area filmed on the 25th of December 2022, the town and streets were empty due to it being Christmas day. Disclaimer this is not a promotional video for the town of Greymouth it's more of a visual record of how Greymouth looked on this day.

Greymouth is the largest town on the West Coast located next to the Grey River. Greymouth was once a busy railway and shipping town with coal being one of the primary exports that was railed in by train from local coal mines to the Greymouth port where the coal was off loaded onto ships or barges for domestic and overseas markets.

Commercial fishing, tourism and manufacturing are still key industries in the Greymouth region along with farming and logging.

Greymouth is well known for the notorious Grey River bar crossing at the mouth of the Grey River that has destroyed various ships and fishing vessels and taken the lives of many sailers over the years.

In the first scenes of this presentation you can see the famous Katabatic chilly cold damp wind flowing down the Grey River from the Grey Valley known as the Barber by the locals.