Fantastic video. Yes, parts of this section looked like rather nasty tracks...can only imagine what it would be like after several days of rain! You are so close to finishing and hearing the excitement in your voice makes my heart sing. I look forward to the next installment.
Nice to share this journey with you. I have travelled the nz bush all my life and at 75yrs am now a bit limited, but I maintain a trap line to protect our nz birds twice a week, 3 hrs each time. Thanks so much for allowing me to join you and see the Mavora Lakes for the first time
Thank you for watching - I bet you've got some great stories to tell as well! That's great you're out protecting our precious birdlife. We're fortunate to have people like you contributing to New Zealand's conservation.
I am in California US. I am running into your channel by chance today but I am interested in it - I love hiking - I like the NZ trails via what I have watched on RU-vid. Thank you for sharing. Hope to see more from your hikes .
40 plus km in a day is a solid as effit. I've come close to that but that was like 12 hours of walking.and it was stil only 38km. Can't wait for the summer.
Yes there was a few 40+ km days - they seemed to get easier as I got further along the trail, but still a long way! That's a good effort going 38km - can definitely relate to that!
The state of that Mavora track... I would guess that DoC doesn't have the resources to cope with that track - so much of their $ and effort has gone into repairing the damage done in Fiordland on the major use tracks, and the miserly Government effectively reduces their budget each year by not keeping up with inflation and sufficient allocation for major weather events.
Yes it wasn't a very good stretch of track, but I fully understand with the funding given to them. When I was in the visitor centre in Te Anau afterwards, there was a sign saying there was insufficient funds to keep up with maintenance on all the tracks. It's a shame the government can't support them better.
Better than them allowing the burning of all the huts in the beautiful Urewera. What a tragedy. I explored and lived in that area in the 70s 80s, cut my teeth of experience there, learned to love the bush in a spiritual way.
This was heartbreaking to walk through this section and witness the wanton destruction of the Mavora lakes area from yobbo redneck in their 4wds. And then the decimation of the forest from stock in the Māori owned sections of the Greenstone area. So much for Kaitiakitanga!
