New Zealand Great Walk: Kepler Track - an adventure above the clouds.

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February 25th 2013

Published: March 17th 2013

Note: more photos appear at the bottom of this page The Kepler Track (61 kilometres encompasses the best of everything - from the lakeside beech forests and alpine tops, to hearing kiwi at Irisburn Hut. Travelling along mountain tops for 12 kilometres, the Kepler Track is an alpine adventure with stunning panoramas. The walk took us from the shores of Lake Te Anau to spend a night high above the ... Read Full Entry

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Donavin Wick

Call 2 Adventure

I wish I had discovered this blog years ago. I did the mass email update for my previous adventures (United States and Europe) and now have no online documentation to share with fellow travelers. To the chagrin of some friends and family wanderlust has struck again. I managed to stay focused for nearly a year and a half in a job related to my college education, however the desire to travel has grown strong again and can no longer be suppressed. I have secured a 12 month Visa for New Zealand and hope to document this adventure for posterity, or at least the life of the TravelBlog. Enj... full info

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Kia at our afternoon tea break... powerful beak!

View down to treeline and clearing in the valley where we would stay at Iris Burn Hut

From here it was nearly 3 hours downhill

Last Alpine shot for the day before hitting the forest

Large landslide on the way down the hill

Morning at Iris Burn Hut

27 Feb

View of Iris Burn Hut

The hut stayed shadded late into the morning as it was in the shadow of the moutain we'd climbed the prior day

Stream near the hut

First rays of sun coming over the mountain we'd climbed the prior day

Starting the trail to Moturau Hut... 6 hours of hiking ahead.

Footbridge over stream

Early Morning Light on the Path to Moturau Hut

Area where they did some lord of the ring filming of the Dead Marshes

More on the trail to Moturau Hut

Forest of large ferns

Enjoying an agavero tequila on our last night

M, D and A... meanwhile trying to avoid sandflies at Motuau Hut

Late afternoon sun as seen from Moturau Hut over Lake Manapouri

Sunset at Moturau Hut

Early Morning Light as seen from Moturau Hut

28 Feb

Motuau Hut

This was by far the hottest sleeping location... it was difficult to breath and sleep it got so stuffy with 30 people sleeping in the room and none of us brave enough to open up the windows for fear of the mosquitos.

Next stop Rainbow Reach and the bus ride back to civilization

M&K contemplating one of the last boardwalks (bogs) on the trail.

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