Time for another holiday. The plan is to go north, go camping, go kayaking somewhere. The initial plan was to go to Molesworth Station but since rain was forecast the decision was made to follow to sun: to the West Coast. Here we are passing through Arthur’s Pass National Park, surrounded by all those mountains I so often fly to in my glider
We have a little stop at Lake Poerua
And at the Crooked River Reserve
Somehow we end up at Lake Haupiri, it turns out this is where they have the Gloriavale Christian Community, right on the other side on the lake
There are some walks to be done here, we decide to go on one
Good day for it
We forgot to put on our proper hiking boots, which was a bummer because there were quite a few puddles like this one
It’s beautiful here
This is where we turn around again, but those are some interesting walks that I’ll likely do some other time
The next thing we come across is Kopara
An old logging town, not sure why they would have needed a cannon
The local pub
The Parched Pilgrim
The place can be hired for weddings etc
They collect bottle openers
I imagine lots of line dancing will have taken place here
Wouldn’t pass a WOF
If I’m not mistaken this is the village’s post office
Hungry! Time for dinner
Om nom nom
A map of today’s trip, from Christchurch to Nelson Creek