More Than Just Beaches - Babysitting Birds On Australia's Gold Coast

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We left Gunn’s Camp reluctantly the next morning and made a sudden decision to drive in to Milford Sound as it was such a great day. What a lucky decision! The drive in is absolutely awe-inspiring. The views of the mountains with their imp...

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After a brilliantly starry night, we woke to a stunning day so quickly set off again for our eighth consecutive day of walking. This time we were going to Key Summit on the Routeburn Track which Isabel and I had been to before but which Alison and J...

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The next day dawned a bit misty round the hills but the forecast was for clearing weather so we packed up lunch and took off to tramp in to Lake Marian near the top of the Hollyford Road. As it is a long drive in to this area, we wanted to make the m...

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As we sat on the deck eating breakfast next morning Mount Madeleine appeared out of the clouds. The weather was stunning again for our last day’s tramp and we had wonderful views of the spectacular mountains we had missed on the way in. The r...

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Rain greeted us again next morning; real Fiordland rain this time. The track today was mostly inches under water. The whole landscape was streaming with water, the creeks were all running high and cloud covered the mountains. We steamed along, our...

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We were up before the sun next morning to get an early start for our walk to Jamestown. It was another lovely day. We had a thoroughly enjoyable and relaxed walk. Our information sheet made the track sound rather boring talking of lots of scrub an...

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What a change in the weather next day! We woke to a perfect morning and were down at the lake at dawn to see the sun come up over the mountains. The lake looked beautiful with wreaths of mist in the valleys. We had a leisurely breakfast as we didn...

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We woke to drizzle again. Alan set off back to the road end and we began our tramp in the other direction towards Alabaster Hut. The day began rather stormily with quite heavy rain and lightning but improved as we went along. One major advantage of...

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The big day for the start of our six day tramp dawned drizzly and dull but we set off well equipped for our first day’s walk to Hidden Falls Hut. Alan came with us for the night and carried the food for our first dinner and breakfast, lighten...

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We set out from Te Anau full of enthusiasm for our long-planned tramp in the Hollyford Valley. Alan was driving our Toyota Coaster bus, our home of the last few months. Alison, Joy and Isabel had flown in to Queenstown the day before and were trave...

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