9/11, always a special day for me, we decide to visit Castle Hill but before we get there we make a quick stop at Lake Lyndon where the water is higher than I have ever seen it, those poles belong to a low fence to stop cars from going beyond them so you can imagine how low the water level normally is

Normally this part of the lake isn’t even there

Castle Hill car park, Torlesse Range behind it

I don’t know why but Kiwis seem to make everything worse year by year, they’ve cut down some awesome trees that used to be here and for some insane reason it’s now strictly no drones

At least the rocks are all still there

But today we’re not looking at the first part of Castle Rock, but at the other parts beyond that, most of which I had not visited before

Like this part, where those crazy Kiwis for some reason have put a fence around, I have no idea why, it didn’t use to be there but Kiwis love fences

Like this beautiful part which is now fenced off

Looks like a dog’s head to me

Cragieburns to our left

Prebble Hill, and it’s a good day for gliding!

On our way to Castle Hill summit, slowly getting there

Made it

The Craigies, normally I fly along those tops

I’m glad I finally visited this part of Castle Hill, it’s beautiful

Yep, me

More Craigies

And more rocks

Rocks everywhere

Makes me think about Tibet for some reason

Nice cumulus clouds!

Looks like a stranded submarine, climbers were up there just before, I could never do that

What a landscape

There’s hardly any wind today, it’s dead quiet here

Having a little break

Split Apple Rock, well, sort of, the ‘real’ one is in the Abel Tasman National Park of course (thanks Hugo)

That angled part must have been the sea floor at some stage I think

Just imagine how much water and time it must have taken to carve these shapes

Cirrus clouds, tomorrow might be not so nice as today

Yet another rock photo

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