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and... my very first long walk >20kms with full pack since recovering from my navicular foot fracture... excuse me if I'm a little bit excited!
Once again, out from my front door and along the wonderful neighbourhood parks and reserves and the Tom Roberts Horse Trail. There were lots of eucalypt trees, rows of pruned grapevines, sheep and cattle in paddocks, a mix of paved roads, tracks, rocky trails and mud... just like on the Camino
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Thank you!Great to read of your progress Meri; now just keep on keeping on!
Happy trails and Ultreia!
I have trouble getting things the way I want them too but I found a way to do it. You keep repeating this until it looks good enough. First you post. Then:PS: please tell me if I am doing something wrong when posting the photos, I choose 'thumbnail' but somehow one pic always gets 'away' ...
Yes, it was sad to see it gone. The floodwaters peaked at 4:00am and the bridge held on for a few more hours until the force of the water pulled the cement and posts out of the banks.Wow that's a lot of water! What a shame for that bridge...
Lovely pictures, thank you for sharing. Wish you well , Peter.Walking across the suspension bridge over the Columbia River to the trail through the forest and around Zuckerberg Island near Castlegar B.C. A beautiful, special place.
We came back today, going Friday for a week to Limburg.We both love it to walk there.Across the border Peter...
Thank you so much @SabineP! I always enjoy yours as well!Theatregal...your pictures never stop to amaze me! Wonderful.
Thank you Peter ~ Wishing you well too!Lovely pictures, thank you for sharing. Wish you well , Peter.
So beautiful.
Hi Sabine , the "St. Pietersberg" has a hight of about 110 mtr.Drove to neighbouring country the Netherlands where I walked at Mount St Peter. I think the highest point of Netherlands.
Bit of everything : woods, tarmac, caves and the water not far away either.
Grey during whole walk and now at the cafe finally sun.
After a year of struggling (I finally got clear of hospitals) to enjoy a few days in the English Lake District. Who knows where next year ?
Thank you SabineP that is very kind of you I hope to be able to spend a little more time walking now and on the forum.Hi pilgrimb : good to hear you are on the mend.
Good to see you are active again. Maybe we will see you around Devon again sometime next year. Happy walking....After a year of struggling (I finally got clear of hospitals) to enjoy a few days in the English Lake District. Who knows where next year ?
Thank you Tia Valeria hope to be back in Devon sometime in early September already booked and can't wait to return.Good to see you are active again. Maybe we will see you around Devon again sometime next year. Happy walking....
I'm cheating here because these walks were far from local. In fact they were on the other side of the world from me but they are non-camino and local to forum members from New Zealand.
The first thing we did on our trip once settled into Auckland, NZ was to walk through the town to Mt. Eden. Peg and I had been to the exact antipode of this spot on our first trip to Spain over 25 years ago so I could say I had been on the exact opposite sides of the earth (I had been to NZ and Mt. Eden decades before.) Now Peg can say the same thing.
Mt. Eden in Auckland:
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And this place (an old scan from a slide) is a harvested sunflower field located approximately 17 km from the town of Ronda, southern Spain. At 36.878° north latitude, 5.236° west longtitude, this field is the antipode to Mt. Eden, Auckland New Zealand (at 36.878° south latitude, 174.764° east longtitude.):
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Another NZ walk we took was at the entrance to Aranui Cave near the village of Waitomo Caves. There is a short trail there amongst tree ferns winding up through a narrow canyon with small caves, streams and waterfalls. We did this at night so we could see the glowworms lining the cliffs. Spooky at night, I went back to see it during the day too.
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Next walk (don't let the yellow arrow in the picture fool you) was on a tour to Mt. Tarawera, a volcano that erupted in the 1880s. The tour included a two hour hike to the top and then down into its crater and back up. On Maori owned land, you need to do this as part of a tour.
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The NZ Department of Conservation has 9 trails officially designated as Great Walks. If you want to walk the full length of these during the warmer months you need to make reservations. We didn't need any though for a couple hour walk along the Tongariro Northern Circuit Great Walk in Tongariro National Park.
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The greatest of the Great Walks of our trip, the Milford Track, has been billed for a century as "the finest walk in the world." This walk was a four day trek and we did the whole thing and, amazingly enough, without being rained on. There is just too much to say about this trip for this post. See the Great Walks link below.
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Note the posts with the yellow arrows in this picture. They are there because when the valley is flooded up to your thighs you wouldn't find the trail without them:
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http://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/things-to-do/walking-and-tramping/great-walks/
Lovely photos! @SabinePCrispy cold ( minus 4 Celsius ) and dry weather this morning. Ideal to test out my wintergear.
We were lucky times four. We had already booked our NZ tickets. The Great Walks weren't taking reservations then. At one point I logged in to see when they would open up and they had opened only 40 minutes earlier. When trying to book I saw days already filling up (the Milford Track only allows 40 independent hikers a day and 50 arranged through a tour outfit.) The Department of Conservation closed the track to everybody the day before our hike was to start because of snow. Those hikers couldn't go at all but got refunds. DOC opened the track again for our day. We had four days without rain in one of the wettest spots on earth (a ranger mentioned a 24 hour period he was in that had 620 mm of rain, 2 feet!) The melting snow still gave us plenty of waterfalls to view and some avalanches too.A new walk for my wish list!
Is that mistletoe in the trees?Heavenly weather.Plus 2 celsius.Dry and open sky. Afternoon off from work.
Is that mistletoe in the trees?
Please stop, Rick, you're making me homesick.I don't think it is possible to spend too much time in New Zealand (unless your visa says you have to leave.)
If everyone here is ok with it, I will create a new thread with walks of 2017? Next week of course
Great! Thank you Sabine!If everyone here is ok with it, I will create a new thread with walks of 2017? Next week of course
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