{"id":12867,"date":"2025-03-06T23:59:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T10:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edwinov.com\/edwininnz\/?p=12867"},"modified":"2025-08-31T16:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T04:37:08","slug":"holiday-day-2-nelson-creek-to-waiuta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edwinov.com\/edwininnz\/2025\/03\/holiday-day-2-nelson-creek-to-waiuta\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Day 2 – Nelson Creek to Waiuta"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There are some walks to do here including a loop track so we decide to walk that one to start the day, first we need to get to the other side of the river<\/p><\/div>\n

There the track continues<\/p><\/div>\n

There’s a little pond here<\/p><\/div>\n

And lots of walking in this kind of scenery<\/p><\/div>\n

A hole that needs to be inspected<\/p><\/div>\n

I guess I could<\/strong> crawl through it but why would<\/strong> I?<\/p><\/div>\n

House in the little village of Ahaura<\/p><\/div>\n

Waiuta, I had been here before<\/a> but Rachel hadn’t<\/p><\/div>\n

This used to be a gold mining town<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

Looks like a gigantic sewing machine to me<\/p><\/div>\n

Missed opportunity: had I changed the angle at which I took this photo a bit it would have looked like the chimney was still working!<\/p><\/div>\n

Ye olde Barbershop, Southern Alps in the distance<\/p><\/div>\n

One of the walks<\/a> here (the Snowy Battery Track) you are no longer allowed (what I read as ‘advised’) to do because: dangerous! Needless to say we checked it out regardless. More old mining stuff<\/p><\/div>\n

Arsenic, Mercury & Cyanide. That’s 100%<\/a> PURE NZ for ya!<\/p><\/div>\n

Some people just refuse to follow the rules…<\/p><\/div>\n

At the site<\/a> of the Prohibition<\/a> Shaft<\/p><\/div>\n

They never cleaned up after they stopped mining here<\/p><\/div>\n

We decided to camp at Waiuta, lovely sunset!<\/p><\/div>\n

Map of today, from Nelson Creek to Waiuta<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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