So the Kepler Track was our big expidition into the NZ unknown. Three days and 2 nights in the wilderness. It was great. Sleeping in alpine huts, eating pot noodles and bunking with snoring strangers. The views and ‘tramping’ through forests and mountain ridges was so physically challaning it took several days to recover. Obviously I was always going to take several pairs of shoes travelling, but it never became more pravelent that Mike only took 2 pairs travelling on the kepler track. His walking shoes/trainers/day shoes are now resigned to a carrier bag in the front f the van when we sleep.
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| 1st night - luxmore hut |
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| Stalactites in Luxmore Cave |
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| Snowball fight on Mt Luxmore |
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| Top of the Mountain - 1450m |
The first day was up up up through forest, the second was a magnificant ridge walk and summit climb, the third was ridge, forest, river and lake. The third day was about 22 miles and at the end of it all I wanted to do was take my shoes off. When I did I discovered that my veins in my feet were massive, I mean really prominent.
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| Toilet with a view |
I would try to describe the scenery, but I think we’ve all seen Lord of the Rings.
You get complacent in NZ, because it’s persisently awesome, sometimes it’s easy to forget to apprectiate how wonderful the vista is. There are times when all you want to do is get to ‘point B’, so you don‘t stop at a massive waterfall, or a bright blue lake.
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