I took a "Visitor Center photo" of our morning hike up to Hooker Lake, and then my afternoon hike (at the bottom) up the side of Mt Sebastopol - Red Tarns Track:
My sophisticated capture-and-display of Red Tarns Track information:
Unfortunately (I HATE saying that when I'm hiking!), I made a mistake (bad signage; delivery truck covering other "real" sign) and additionally hiked the Governors Bush Track. I came out where the Red Tarns Track crosses over the Black Birch Stream:
A 1975 Geology paper wrote: "Extensive areas of scree are present." Do you think??
And then I went up-up-up the track:
At the top of the trail, the views are WONDERFUL, with the Village far far below:
The "red tarns" are high alpine ponds coloured red by their vegetation:
Can you spot the hikers?
(he is standing, and she is sitting. We waved to each other.)
A look west at the mountains above Black Birch Stream:
and a final look north at the Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park:
I found a kml file for Red Tarns Track (in Google Earth), but the default is just sort-of looking down on the trail:
But Google Earth allows you to twist-and-turn the display, so this is looking up the mountain!:
I could not believe how much up-up-up the trail was in the beginning, so I counted the stairsteps on my way down - 1386!!
We then drove an hour+ down the road to Lake Tekapo, where, it turns out, I had rented A WHOLE HOUSE!! FOR TWO NIGHTS!! WITH THE BEST SHOWER IN ALL OF NEW ZEALAND!!
The view out the back, with a glimpse of Lake Tekapo:
After a nice dinner in town at Mackenzie's, it was off to bed! THANK YOU GOD for these wonderful adventures in these Beautiful Places!!
Music today - music from my silver nano:
Dave Matthews Band - The Central Park Concert, 2003 (cd 2-of-3)
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