Heaphy Track: Crossing the Red Sea with Moses no where to be found.
May 18th 2015 "Oughhhhhh." I exhaled in unrelenting disgust. "It smells like a dead body..."
I plopped my pack down on the nearby picnic table and vigorously scanned my surroundings. The open area was the length and shape of a skating rink. A brush line of palms, rata trees, and ferns rimmed a grassy lawn so immaculate any suburban homeowner would kill for. The Heaphy Hut stood on the far side of this manmade
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Tara Cloud
An adventure out of time
Majestic scenery, exotic wildlife, silence and spiritual renewal, luxury, death, fabulous bridges, friends new and old, and an unexpected, sloshy adventure--fantastic! I hiked where Jurassic Park was filmed on the Na Pali trail on Kauai--also in a black plastic garbage bag. Intrepid trekkers won't be stopped by a little rain!