A couple of years ago, our boys heard a rumor that a hut they had tramped to twice had burned down. They were rather unhappy with this news, since it was a pretty nice hut. Elijah decided he wanted to know for sure whether it had burned or was still standing, and planned a tramp awhile back to find out. Other things came up and the tramp had to be canceled; this happened at least once, if not a couple of times. Finally, sometime in December, he and his two younger brothers were able to go up there and find out. They did just an overnight tramp, leaving late one morning and returning the next afternoon. This first one is a fungus on a tree next to the creek–I’ve never seen such a thing!
A creek partway up the track.
A blue duck, an endangered native species. Both of the pair are in the second picture.
The hut is still standing!
The track to the Lake Morgan hut is up the scree slope in the middle of this picture.
The blue ducks again, this time when the boys were on the way out.
The younger boys made these signs from scraps they found at the hut and posted them at the junction of two tracks.
Returning to the main track from the hot pools, which were across the river.
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