Day 8 - Puketi

 

Awoken to a rainbow. 

Today was the intended day for the Omahuta Puketī Forest Track. In this track there is a river crossing. Due to the recent rain storm it would be too high to pass. So the group of us was forced to the 36km forestry road detour. 

A sign saying that when the water flows over the bridge, the river crossing ahead is too dangerous. 

11am photo, on the forestry road. 

A stunning lunch spot

Beekeepers are allowed to keep their hives along the road. 

The forestry road was along the ridgeline of the mountains giving me some views. This is the first time I’m seeing the eastern coast of new NZ. 

oops lol

At the end of the road there was a kauri tree boardwalk where I could see some massive living kauri trees. Awesome. I talked to a local kiwi for a while. The chat started purely about appreciating trees, but then it devolved into how these trees were nodes place on earth collecting electromagnetic energy from distant stars and collecting it in the earth, and there were spirits in my spine, and all I had to was reach the next level of scientific understanding; so and so forth. I left. The trees were nice though. 

I reached camp and talked to two American TA’ers who were pretending to be Canadians. We had a laugh, they were doing a pretty shit job of acting Canadian.