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Haurangi Crossing 16-18 August
Friday - The weekend started with a night walk into Mangatoetoe Hut from the Mangatoetoe Stream carpark. Saturday - Up Mangatoetoe Stream and over a saddle to Otakaha Stream and Kawakawa Hut for lunch. Then up Otakaha Stream to a fork near the head and up and over another saddle to Pararaki Stream and Pararaki Hut for the night. Sunday - A 500mtr climb up behind the hut and down to Washpool Stream and Washpool Hut for lunch. Then another climb behind the hut and along to the start of a fourwheel drive track above the Puutangirua Pinnacles. Then out to Te Poki.
Granddad was still tired the next morning
A great location
Granddad supervising the cleaning up
and then the rain started
Paddy
There was lots of ongaonga and we all got stung at some point
There were some fun river crossings in the rain
Like this one
A happy tramper
Queen Elisabeth
Tweedle dum and Tweedle dumer
Lunch and a brief respite from the rain at Kawakawa hut
Out of the river into the bush
Our residence for Saturday night
There had clearly been a few pigs around
Nothing like a fire to warm the spirits huh
Pistol eating dinner
Washpool hut followed our first 500mtr climb on Sunday
and then onto our second 500mtr climb (sigh!)
We finally spotted the sea
Badjelly
We finally made the four wheel drive track (I was hoping we'd be surprised by Elisabeth's lads waiting in four wheel drives, but it was not so)
It didn't seem that well used (perhaps Raymond and Thomas could not get the four wheel drives up the track to pick us up?)
An aerial view of the Pinnacles
The suns rays were a welcoming site
