Last tour-Western Wilderness 1

March 22, 2023

We started the day with a sunrise walk to Lake Matheson so see the reflection of Mt Cook and Mt Tasman in the lake. We also went to a spot to best see the Fox Glacier that is rapidly receding. After breakfast we drove for 2 hours along the west coast highway until we reached Ross and the start of the West Coast Wilderness trail, our final trail. It was a fairly short and flat section on the middle of which we did a walk among the tree tops. The latter part of the trail was a single track winding its way among the trees of the west coast. It was a lot of fun to ride. We are in Hokitika tonight one of the centres of greenstone or Pounamu and of course I had to buy a piece.

Our final trail of our tour, the Western Wilderness.the arrows show how are tour we will be broken into 3 pieces.

This cheeky Kea was caught trying to chew the rubber on our bikes early this morning.

A better photo from the internet. Hopefully we will see few more of these birds yet.

There are many who would be happy to put a lock on this.

The first part of this trail is also a former railway

We stopped to do a walk among the tree tops

This Weka was wandering around the café where we had lunch

Today's ride: 38 km (24 miles)
Total: 938 km (582 miles)

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Hilary JaegerNice jade piece!
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