Blog sloth and relaxed tramping
As I sat by the fire on Sunday eve, my feet resting comfortably in my fuzzy bunny slippers, I realized it had been almost a month since the last blog post. Hm. Better get on that.
With the onset of summer, we spend pretty much every daylight hour in the garden, trying to fight back the encroaching forces of the weed army and scrape together a few vege for the dinner table. So far, besides the aforementioned asparagus, we’ve had quite a bit of kale, and we should have a few snap peas in short order. A tomato and potato onslaught is forecast for late summer.
Last Friday was Canterbury day, in honor of, er, the region’s, uh, founding, um, father-type guys. Or something like that. But, woo-hoo, another three day weekend!
As the weather forecast was good, we ventured up to Lewis pass and enjoyed the tramp to the Lake Daniells hut. Rather than any sort of epic back-country heroics, we opted for an easy hike to pretty spot, with the idea of a couple of relaxing days in the woods.
The tramp to Lake Daniels is gentle and short, and ends with a pleasant hut perched on the shore of an even more pleasant lake. The tramp itself is considered “family-friendly” by Kiwi standards, and the hut was swarming with kids most of the weekend, which we didn’t mind. It was also swarming with sand flies most of the weekend, which we minded very much, thank you.
On the drive back out, we stopped at Lewis Pass proper to climb the Lewis Peaks, a forested ascent which continues above the bushline.
I’ll refrain from the step-by-plodding-step recount of the whole weekend. Here are some of the pictures. Click any of them to get to the gallery and see the rest of the pictures, including, back by popular demand, more fuzzy blow-up photos of birds.
