Hello!!
It was raining – absolutely pouring today!
Jeff bought me a proper waterproof jacket for hiking so I was all excited to try it out!
So we geared up in waterproof pants, gaiters & jacket and set off to Anniversary Bay to do a loop.
Bucketed down the whole drive.
We got there and someone turned the tap off!!
We got hardly a drop the whole 2 hours out – had to take the gear back off partway around because… we were soaking from sweat!! (Eye roll)
Next time I will have to get Jeff to get a snap of me in my fancy new jacket!
Jeff takes his new pack out pretty much every hike now. Fits him like a glove and he is going to be so ready for the next long trek!!!
I am sure I will get keen and get a pack happening, but, meh… not just yet!
Its pretty out there. Lots of bushes covered in tiny flowers
The weird yellow worms were out today.
Bit gloomy out there but the temperature was quite pleasant. No wind either!
Our least favourite hill…
I got up at a steady pace (Must have been the B12 boost!!) while Jeff took it a lot slower. I can’t really get a shot that shows how rotten that hill is!!
I am going to send this photo to the Parks people. These supplies have been lying here for probably 2 years!! Liberating those steel droppers is starting to look tempting because clearly no-one wants to do anything with them except leave them to rust!! 😀
Mind you the timber would be handy, but I can’t see us finding a practical way to sneak it out of the hills haha.
Anyway, we keep wondering if they have forgotten about it. There is another lot of supplies at the Doone Falls turn off as well. Strange to put into the budget supplies and a helicopter drop off… then not actually build anything with them!
Anyway, thats all from me!
Maybe tomorrow there will be some more gardening (although I rashly promised Jeff a morning hike!!)
Cheers
Good job you had your jab first!
It reminds me- my daughter likes watching programmes about the emergency services (she wants to join the ambulance service) and I walked in on one from Tasmania the other day where a man needed evacuating from a hut on the Overland Trail when he got snowed in. Kia ora hut I think. Anyway, it was nice to see some aerial views of it!
Oh wow… Yup. Was only thinking about Kia Ora hut today for some reason or other! I wonder if the evacuation was from this season? That would have been great to see! (The aerial view not the person in distress!!)
People do get caught up there a lot. They don’t take the possible killer weather seriously. Sometimes even if they do, things can still go pear shaped!!
I think the B12 had def. given me a boost!!
I’m not sure how old the programme was.
The hiker was fine and seemed pretty prepared but had tried hiking out from the hut over a couple of days and couldn’t so had activated a distress beacon I think. The helicopter team were glad he had as it avoided a full search for him being triggered when he was reported overdue. I think that was the general gist- I was too busy admiring the scenery 🙂
Amazing how quickly that can happen! The snow really made things tough on the day we had it. We were lucky it was on one of the short days!! Would have been exhausting!!
Yes – isn’t it just gorgeous up there! Easy to see why we keep going back!! 🙂