Crocs - Fashion Statement or Fashion Disaster
Here I am heating water over a fire at the bivvy below Cow Saddle. I'm wearing my Crocs - which I find ideal to change into after a day's tramping. They are light but don't slip the way jandals do, and nor to they flick mud up the back of your legs. And it's even possible to wear thin socks under them to stop the sandflies biting. My last pair were destroyed by keas at Cascade Saddle, last summer. In the latest Wilderness magazine (Jan 2010), mountain guide Jo Haines describes her red Crocs as her favourite piece of outdoor kit. Picture: Ross McLean
The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. In that same year... ... read more 
