Hey folks! Sorry for the delay here, but we’ve been away from the world wide web for awhile. After our adventure at Trotter’s Gorge we basically made an uneventful dash down the east coast. The weather was cold and rainy, so we spent lots of time in the car playing games, reading, listening to the wind, etc. By the time we got to Fiordland the weather was slowly getting better and the forecast was looking great for our two weeks of backpacking. Fiordland is definitely one of those places that pictures cannot fully capture and my lame vocabulary can’t come close to describing.
In the two weeks we had set aside for Fiordland, we had sketched out a pretty busy schedule for ourselves. First up–the Milford Track which has been called “the greatest walk in the world” by National Geographic. We had a day or so to hang around Te Anau and camp on the edge of Lake Te Anau before we took the boat ride to the start of the track. It was nice to have a some time to dry out our gear from the previous week of rain, relax on the lake shore, and soak up the sun. Fiordlands is not typically a place that people go to soak up the sun. On average, they receive about 7 meters of rain per year. If you do the conversion to our system of measurement, that equals a shit ton of rain. By the time we got on the track, the sun was out and it pretty much stayed out for the next 12 days while we were backpacking.
We ended up doing the Milford, Routeburn, Greenstone and Caples tracks before heading to Colac Bay and our next WWOOFing stint at the Pavilion restaurant. I’ve got to wrap things up quickly here as internet time is short, but check out the new pictures on Flickr–they tell a pretty good story. And, if I told you everything here then we wouldn’t have any stories to tell when we get home.
Just remember to ask us about Warren, our Routeburn Track mix-up, and all the gourmet food at the Pavilion.
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Tags: backpacking, mountains, National Park