A few weeks ago it finally twigged that my friend Linda was actually leaving to head back to Ireland quite soon. So I said ‘We should go off on a hike or something, I feel like I’ve hardly seen you’, to which Linda replied ‘Well yes, but that’s because you’re always so busy’. Which, in retrospect, is a fair point. The other day I counted up how many weekends in the last 52 that I’ve actually been in ChCh. It’s about 10 (though most of those 10 I was off climbing in Castle Hill/Rock/ something).
So, headed off on Saturday morning off up to Lake Daniels (Lewis Pass). It’s a really easy hike – just a couple of hours in.
But it’s a pretty sweet location. It was not *quite* as tranquil as I was hoping it would have been. We had some.. colourful.. hunters, staying in the hut too. It was a perfectly starry night though, and while this pic is taken when it was still light, the starlight reflected in the water was really quite something.
Then on Sunday just a leisurely stroll out, a good soak in Maruia Springs, before heading home to watch the final episode of Billy Connolly’s World Tour of New Zealand.
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