Haurangi Crossing 16-18 August
A very wet crossing
Friday, 16 August 2013
The weekend started with a Friday night walk into Mangatoetoe hut
Granddad was still tired the next morning
Granddad supervising the cleaning up
and then the rain started
There was lots of ongaonga and we all got stung at some point
There were some fun river crossings in the rain
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
Washpool hut followed our first 500mtr climb on Sunday
and then onto our second 500mtr climb (sigh!)
We finally spotted the sea
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
It even kinda cleared up (well kinda)