Whitcombe track

The View from the Cable car over the Hokitika river on the Whitcome track

Hokitika Gorge from the first View point

Hokitika Gorge

Rapid Creek Hut

Cable way

Cable way

Rapid Creek Hut

About to jump into the cable car

My summer holiday part 1 Northland

Calender below showing what I am doing when I am back in the UK

Trip to Haast beach

Gates of Haast

 The trip started in the rain and the rivers were stunning the Gates of Haast is a bridge over the river Haast and was very full. The Haast mountain pass is the lowest route over the Southern Alps.

Jackson Bay looking so sunny

A proper rainforest has rain

A short walk from Jackson Bay is a world away

Pioneer cemetery

day out in Queenstown area

Photo taken from the base of the Crown range road

I thought I would start this blog post off with a photo of the mountains above Queenstown and the spectacular clouds. Unfortunately I'm injured for a short time and so my photos are going to be less adventurous and more sedate.

This is the sign at the entrance to the road I've been warned

We drove along one of New Zealands most dangerous roads luckily for me and the other people in the car I wasn't driving. The road is a single track road near coronet peak and is an actual NZ road with road markers on the side of the road. There is a large land slide on the road and the council are working to clear it. We went to check it out.

Yes that is the road on the side of the cliff

The landslide covering the road is left of the digger

This river is used for rafting and jet boat rides

Big digger

The next activity on the agenda was gold panning and I'm afraid I was having too much fun to take photos and it was raining. But I did get a photo of the gold we found.

Gold!

My busy week

This lovely sign is on a few tracks in NZ.

 My Busy week started as all good weeks do with a bad weather forecast. The weather for the first active day of the week was for rain and strong winds. So I thought I would climb a mountain. Turns out the weather forecast was half right. I couldn't get to the top due to the strong winds, but at least the rain held off.  The Isthmus track is a short steep track above Lake Hawea. If you make it to the top on a clear day you can see both Lake Hawea and Lake Wanaka.

Lake Hawea looking beautiful from Isthmus track

So close but so far. The tussock grass shows how windy it was

The Second day of excitement was at Treble Cone and the rain promised for the previous day appeared in the evening and the day was absolutely gorgeous.

The view from the top of the six chairlift at TC

View of Lake Wanaka from TC so amazing.

OOh fresh powder new slopes I think so

Marion showing everyone how its done

Day at Cardrona was another lovely day Marion and Mike kept me company, and I watched them pulling some awesome moves.

Woo hoo new slopes to try

Another top of chairlift photo, this time from Captains

Single cone

Frozen Lake

Views across the mountains inland towards Alexandria

This is the first day trip I have posted on here so it's slightly new. The trip up to single cone starts off at the Remarkables ski field near Queenstown. The trip goes up the fields then along the side of a frozen lake (we went over it as it was flatter). Then the only way was up.

More views towards Queenstown and the crown range

Writing in the snow with an ice axe is harder than it looks

Finally made it to the top of single cone and you can just see Queenstown in the right hand corner

The sunset as we were walking down