Frew / Toaroha Saddles Track, Westland

Looking back 23 kilometres to the Whitcombe after a huge day.

Bluff Hut. A great place to wait out some wild weather with a library and a dramatic perch above the valley.

Your classic house-sized Hokitika river boulder…

Sir Robert Creek headwaters

Leaving Homeward Ridge

Sir Robert Hut

The Mungo, just above the Brunswick Creek junction. Two shifty river crossings.

A quick side trip to Poet Hut.

Mungo Hut and valley.

Toaroha Saddle Bivvy.

The Toaroha, just downstream from Top Toaroha Hut.

Crystal Bivvy.

Dave on Yeats Ridge, thinking about Pipi Pizza and beer.

Meg Hut, Pisa Conservation Area

Kahurangi - Central Otago - Westland

A delayed Christmas break to three favourite places involving hutbagging, catching jewelled geckos for translocation, searching for ancestors' gravestones in west coast cemeteries and an epic wedding squeezed in between.

Boulder Lake (the hut is that tiny white speck on the far side of the lake, to the left) from Brown Cow Ridge

Adelaide Tarn Hut

Anatoki Forks Hut

Coprosma spp. and snowberries

Jewelled Gecko, Naultinus gemmeus

Old Woman Hut, Kopuwai Range

One of a dozen fords that stopped Little Blue and I from further adventuring. At least they make good camping spots.

Track to Rod Donald Hut, Banks Peninsula.

Korimako

Okarito

Ludovico Martini's resting spot, Stafford Cemetery, Arahura