So after Wanaka we drove down through Queenstown and back up the elbow of Lake Wakatipa, through Glenorchy, and then beyond still to Kinloch, other side, where we spent three nights at the Kinloch Lodge. It is a nice base either for serious walking or merely for day hikes, as in our case. One walk we took was out on the Greenstone, not one of the "Great Walks," but pretty great nonetheless, we thought. "Greenstone" in that it was one of the Maori's routes to the greenstone, that is, the jade of the Fiordlands.
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| Kinloch Lodge |
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| At the northern end of Lake Wakatipa |
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| One of scores of beautiful pools on the Greenstone River |
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| The Walks always seem to start with a bridge |
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The Caples, just before its confluence with the Greenstone;
clearest streams and rivers anywhere... |
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| Along the Greenstone |
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| Ditto |
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| Ditto again |
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| And again |
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| Higher peaks around |
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| Ditto |
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| On the road back to Kinloch |
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The water is truly beautiful there, and somehow I am always surprised by the snow-covered, rugged mountains in New Zealand.
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