A drone shot of the peaks we walked to yesterday

You can see how remote the hut is, there’s one drawback to that: if your car battery is empty because you were stupid enough to leave some devices charging overnight then AA Roadservice needs to come a looooooong way to come help you out. And since it’s a 4WD track it took me 2 hours of begging AA Roadservice on the phone to please find someone who was willing to drive up there as their regulars didn’t want to risk it. Eventually someone showed up and jump started our car. Thank you for the awesome service, AA!

When we were finally on the road we drove to Mandeville, this is shortly before we got there

Lovely roads, great scenery

In Mandeville is the Croydon Aircraft Company, pictured here is I think a Tiger Moth

Hard to imagine this once flew

Even a glider! A Musger Mg 19a Steinadler

A Fox Moth

A Dominie

A Aermacchi and a handful of other planes

They do a lot of restoration here

Engine stuff

No idea what this is

This was an interesting stop, the Croydon Aircraft Company

There’s also an old but beautifully restored locomotive in Mandeville

It’s right next to the aircraft musuem

It’s an old Rogers K92

Pretty shiny

I don’t think I had ever seen one like this in real life before

But it’s nice

It would have been awesome if they offered rides in it

Just imagine watching the scenery go by whilst sitting in this wagon

They used this to transport the post in the old days

Rachel is super happy, fresh fruit in Roxburgh

The hydropower station at Lake Roxburgh village

The Roxburgh Aerodrome, good to have seen it as it’s perfect for a landout with a glider if the need ever arises

It’s still morning with nice light so I sent up the drone

That’s our camping spot, the red dot in the middle is the car

We drove the Mt Bee 4WD South Track up to the Mt Bee Bunkrooms and decided to walk the Mt Bee North Track which we had just started where this photo was taken

Another lovely day

For some reason I always end up with little stones in my shoes

Looking east, Mataura Range in the distance

Eyre Forest

Rachel taking photos of plants

The view north, we decide to just keep going until the track stops, which seems like quite a way from here

No idea what these are called but they’re pretty

The track has kind of disappeared now but we still continue a little further

We could go even further but we decide to stop here and maybe fo further another time

So we have a break before we head back

Some rain moving in

Which gives us a great rainbow

Why is everything within the rainbow circle always brighter than outside of it?

Almost back!

That was an awesome walk but also glad to be back at the hut and have a decent meal

Golden hour

What a fantastic place to be! Nobody else but us and an awesome starlit sky