{"id":12928,"date":"2025-03-08T23:59:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T10:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edwinov.com\/edwininnz\/?p=12928"},"modified":"2025-08-31T17:23:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T05:23:52","slug":"holiday-day-4-oparara-basin-arches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edwinov.com\/edwininnz\/2025\/03\/holiday-day-4-oparara-basin-arches\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Day 4 – \u014cp\u0101rara Basin Arches"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Early morning, clouds, bummer! Anyway, breakfast time<\/p><\/div>\n

This weka is (most likely) the evil thief that managed to steal a plastic zip-loc bag from our table that contained One Square Meals, Uncle Tobys Oats and Cadbury Chocolate bars. You don’t pay attention for 1 second and they grab your stuff and drag it into the bushes, just yesterday they got a bag of bread this way that we were able to recover just in time. Naughty weka!<\/p><\/div>\n

We want to visit the \u014cp\u0101rara Arches again<\/a>, this viewpoint on the way there is new to us, so we have a look<\/p><\/div>\n

At the car park where the walk to the arches start we see this cute van<\/p><\/div>\n

Lots of lovely green on our first hike<\/a> towards the Moria Gate Arch<\/p><\/div>\n

And I mean lots<\/p><\/div>\n

Heaps<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s just a great little hike<\/p><\/div>\n

Some mushroom<\/p><\/div>\n

Ferns<\/p><\/div>\n

The entrance to the arches, Rachel waiting at the bottom of the stairs<\/p><\/div>\n

The Moria Gate Arch, looking left<\/p><\/div>\n

Looking back to the entrance<\/p><\/div>\n

Looking right<\/p><\/div>\n

Looking straight ahead<\/p><\/div>\n

Hey, a cave of some sort<\/p><\/div>\n

Yep, looking cool<\/p><\/div>\n

The entrance, now functioning as the exit<\/p><\/div>\n

We continue on our loop track and at some point are able to look back at the arches from the other side<\/p><\/div>\n

After we finished the loop track we went to the other arch: the \u014cp\u0101rara Arch, seen here<\/p><\/div>\n

And here, from ground level<\/p><\/div>\n

Looking towards the hole that lets in the light<\/p><\/div>\n

The water streaming through the arch<\/p><\/div>\n

Stalactites hanging from the ceiling<\/p><\/div>\n

More green with water on the way back to the car<\/p><\/div>\n

Back at the campsite, on the other side of that hill straight ahead lies Scotts Beach, with its own campsite<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

I always love these shots with a single beam of light coming through the clouds<\/p><\/div>\n

Another view of the campsite<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

Getting ready for dinner, hungry!<\/p><\/div>\n