Not
frosty but very cold, got up at 5:30 and started 7:30. When starting walking,
smelt something like fertiliser ahead, and soon found it came from a salmon
farm nearby - wondered what they feed the fish?!
Right after walking out from
Twizel town, a mountain Ben Ohau, that we've climbed before, was seen. The
place I was going to stay tonight located the other side of the mountain and a
lake, and walked towards the mountain all day. Just like the past 2 days, it
was a shared trail with Alps 2 Ocean Cycle Trail. John Key, former Prime
Minister and Tourism Minister, proposed to build NZ cycle trails all over the
country, and TA was benefited from the idea a lot. There were some section to
share with cycle trail in the North Island, however this must be the longest of all.
Walking on a flat trail was and easy on lungs, but very tiring maybe because of
using the same part of feet. Beautiful golden coloured trees around Lake
Ruataniwha just took my breath away and could not take my eye off from the view
for a little while. Walked around Lake Ohau and arrived at Lake Middleton DOC
camp site at 15:00. There was no one else and had a peaceful evening. Went to
bed at 21:00. Walked 7.5 hours, 29km.
今朝は霜こそ降りなかったがとても寒い中、5:30に起きて7:30に出発。歩き始めて間もなく前方から肥料の様な臭いがしてきて不審に思っていたところ、近くのサーモンの養殖場の臭いだった。餌は何を食べさせているのだろうか？
トワイゼルの町を出るとすぐに以前登頂したことのあるベン・オハウの山が見えた。今晩の宿泊予定地はその山から湖を挟んだ対岸にあるので、一日その山を目標に歩く。過去2日同様、ほとんどがアルプス・トゥ・オーシャン・サイクル・トレイルとの共用地だった。観光大臣を兼ねていた元首相ジョン・キーが提唱して全国に整備されたNZサイクル・トレイルの恩恵をTAも少なからず受けているようで、同様の共有部分が北島でも時々あったが、ここまで長距離が一緒なのはここだけだろう。
平坦で体力的には楽なのだが、足の同じ部位ばかり使うせいだろうか、その割にはとても疲れる。しかしルアタニファ湖の黄葉が息をのむ美しさで、しばし我を忘れて見入った。最後はオハウ湖畔を辿り、DOCのミドルトン湖キャンプ場に15:00着。他には誰もおらず、静かな夕べを過ごす。21:30就寝。本日の歩行7.5時間、29km。
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