My Walks in beautiful New Zealand including two of the world’s ‘Great Walks’ The Milford Track and The Routeburn Track. Click on the walk to read the post or use the interactive map to see the route.
The Milford Track is remote, so remote in fact that you have to get a boat to the start and ...
Sometime during the night the rain had stopped and when we left the bunk room the sun was breaking through ...
As forecast we awake to a completely different scene from the Sunshine and clear blue skies of yesterday. Cloud and ...
It’s our final day on the Milford Track and there is a sense of anticipation in the air. Today, the ...
Driving to the start of the Routeburn track I was wondering if the walk we were about to do could ...
Day two on the Routeburn Track dawns bright and clear. All twenty or so bunks in our room were full ...
All was quiet and still in the valley as I paid a visit to the outside toilet during the early ...
After completing two of the ten ‘Great Walks’ in New Zealand we’re working our way slowly up through South Island, ...
It’s only sitting at home, a few weeks after my return from New Zealand that I have time to reflect ...
We are nearing the end of our month walking and travelling through the beautiful South Island of New Zealand / ...
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It’s our final day on the Milford Track and there is a sense of anticipation in the air. Today, the forty of us ‘independent trampers’ who over the last four days have all walked together, ate together, talked together and slept under the same roof together will all complete our journey and at last fulfill what for many, including myself, will have been a long held dream and ambition to have walked ‘The Finest Walk in the World’.
Continue reading “Milford Track Day Four Dumpling Hut to Sandfly Point”
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As forecast we awake to a completely different scene from the Sunshine and clear blue skies of yesterday. Cloud and mist have descended low into the valley overnight, draining the colour from the trees and muffling the sound of the birds and the rivers. The huge rock wall of Mount Balloon opposite which last night rose up before us like a giant is completely enveloped in mist and may as well have disappeared as far as we were concerned as we could see nothing beyond twenty metres. The air was still and the mist, cold and damp, hung in the air. It was like a grey wet blanket had been thrown over the valley.
Continue reading “Milford Track Day Three Mintaro Hut to Dumpling Hut”
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Sometime during the night the rain had stopped and when we left the bunk room the sun was breaking through and the clouds were beginning to lift away from the mountain tops. We enjoyed breakfast of porridge and banana washed down with plenty of tea and chatted with some of the Americans who we met at dinner last night. Our fellow ‘trampers’ seem to be a fairly international bunch, mostly Americans with a smattering of French, German, Dutch and Australian. As far as I can tell, no Kiwis though. The only other Brits seem to be a doctor who is working in Dunedin and his wife.
Continue reading “Milford Track Day Two Clinton Hut to Mintaro Hut”
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The Milford Track is remote, so remote in fact that you have to get a boat to the start and from the finish of it. There are no roads on the track, everything has to be walked in or brought in by helicopter. This, in its very essence was the appeal of walking the Milford Track for me. A four day walk through pristine rain forest wilderness, following crystal clear rivers, surrounded by snow capped mountains rising straight up from steep sided valleys sounds just like heaven, and in a way it is.
Continue reading “Milford Track Day One Glade Wharf to Clinton Hut”
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