Kepler track

We took our time getting up this morning. I was feeling better physically but was still a little disappointed about having to cancel yesterday. We had a late breakfast and decided to take a mammoth hike to shake off the bad feelings. We walked the shore of Lake Te Anau. The path leads around the south end, with what appears to be more of an arid bush, then it turns over the dam toward the Kepler Track. We stopped over the dam, admiring the feat of engineering it must have taken, then we were off into the rain forest. The country has fewer animals than Australia, but the bush is incredible. There is moss growing on moss, growing on moss, growing on fungus, growing on trees, growing on the ground...There are just green things continually growing on top of other things in the rain forest. It is so amazing, and then I imagine the things I cannot see. We walked around the southern tip of the lake but not all the way around, as it is about 55 miles long.

Five hours later, we were tired and hungry. We made pasta, with pesto, played a little poker, and called it a night.Weiterlesen