Deep South - Kepler Easter 18-27 April

Friday, 18 April 2014

The night before starting

Rupert and Queen E organise their pantry

A view to our destination from the camping ground

The team ready to start at the Control gates shelter

Lake Te Anau control gates

On our way

Brod Bay Shelter

Brod Bay

Above the bush line - heading for

Luxmoore Hut

Luxmoore Caves

Lake Te Anau panorama

Brandon (aka rooster)

The blue coats at Mt Luxmoore trig - Paula even has matching gloves!

Forest Burn shelter

Kea

Another arm of Lake Te Anau

Iris Burn Hut

Iris Burn Falls

Whio

a few fauna close ups...

Fungi cam!

The valley where a huge rock slide occurred in the 1980's

Iris Burn

Rupert whispers with Robin

Great Uncle Owen said these taste good

Pistol at Rocky point

Lake Manapouri

Pistol & Smurf have a camera duel at 10 paces

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A refreshing dip at Lake Manapouri

we could laugh about it once we got warm again

Now where do we go next?

Lake Manapouri panorama

Moturau Hut

We took a detour to visit Shallow Bay hut - bagged another one!

Shallow Bay Panorama

Shallow Bay Hut - cute

Wetlands beyond Shallow Bay

Balloon Loop

Back at the start - Control gates

But we walked on around the lake back to Te Anau