nigeyboygoeswalkabout

Hi folks. Well I'm now down in Invercargill waiting to go to Stewart Island to do the 10-12day North West Circuit, which is a fairly isolated wilderness hike. I had quite a nice drive down thru the Catlins via the Clutha river. The Scenery here , like the weather is truly bizarre, and you can go form a landscape akin to that which you might find in Lanzarote to one of lush green rolling hills with in the space of 50km. The Catlins have a really soft beauty which was quite rerfreshing and welcoming after all of the spectacular Mountainscapes.



There are also some lovely beaches here and I camped at Curio bay where the dolphins are supposed to enjoy surfing the breaks although they didn't come out to play while I was there.
The photo on the left is of a bay I can't pronounce as the weather broke before I got any good shots of where I stayed.








Now then, I wouldn't say the Catlins are quiet, but here's a shot of one of the local highlights........and rather bizarely this trail ended on the opposite side of the road, about ten feet away ......and here's the photo to prove it!












Five minutes later I passed a track called Deadhorse road............Ihave to tell you I was pretty tempted to drive down it just to see......


I'm currently holed up in an absolutley amazing hostel in Invercargill. The place is nicer than a lot of peoples homes...all for 8quid a night, not bad eh? I'll be out of contact for the next 10 days or so, but in the meantime if any of you would like to e-mail me it would be great to hear from you. So long for now,

Nigeyboy