Our camping spot on the South Arm Lake Manapouri Campsite, there’s lot and lots of bumblebees around this morning

We are doing the Green Lake Track today, towards Green Lake Hut, which is basically a track through this valley and then left over the mountain

A map of the track, it’s the dashed line starting near Borland Bivouac, going south first and then east towards Green Lake Hut

The tracks starts with a lovely walk through a forest

Me and my heavy backpack

And then opens up to this view, we need to cross this boggy terrain

It’s slow going in this terrain

Lots of boggy ground, holes in the ground and then all the grasses

And when you’ve done the first stretch of this terrain there’s a next one after that

This is the turn to the left, through the forest and over the mountain from here on

But first we take a rest and are greeted by this friendly robin who took a keen interest in the hair on my legs, my shoes and my socks

Such a cute bird

Island Lake

Glad I brought my tripod

Hoping you don’t fall when crossing streams

Looking in the direction of Mt Burns, we are getting closer to the lake now

And there is is! Green Lake. Silly name. It looks blue to me

Green Lake Hut

Sun is getting low, we arrived just in time

A last photo before sunset