Monday 23rd December, 2013. Walking the Queen Charlotte Track, Queen Charlotte Sound, Marlborough Sounds. We had come to the Anakiwa Lodge in Anakiwa for one reason and one reason only. it is the end of the Queen Charlotte Track (QCT) which was another item on M's bucket list. The Queen Charlotte Track, located at the top of New Zealand's South Island in the Marlborough Sounds, is a spectacular walk from the historic Ship Cove through to Anakiwa in the Grove Arm of the Queen Charlotte and Sound. The track runs along a thin, serrated peninsula dividing Queen Charlotte Sound from Kenepuru Sound. It is 71 km long so we did not have the time (or the inclination) to do it all. We had heard that the last stretch down in to Anakiwa was one of the
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