Cradle Mountain National Park

After Frenchmans cap it was time to retire to the beach town of Strahan (population 700 odd) where we got a text from Mike who had kindly housed us in Christchurch after we’d been forced to move out. His text, unfortunately, said that while he’d been away from Christchurch after the quake the house had been looted.

I think that post-earthquake looters should be put into stocks and subjected to taunts preferably with a large supply of rotten tomatoes to be flung at them. That’d be good. Not sure what it says about the rule of law, but hey.

Anyway.. dried our stuff, ate food, drank wine, and then headed off to Cradle Mountain national park.

It was formed through glacial action (I think) and is a fairly stunning, if touristy park. There were some nice loops to be tramped. We spent two days there, and on the second hiked to the top of the mountain. It was quite snowy on the way up which was exciting.

Absolutely stunning view from the top – well worth the hike up.