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Day 1: Arrive in Tuatapere
Check in to The Waiau Hotel, recently voted
New Zealand's top country hotel. Around
5pm wander along the road to the Tuatapere
Hump Ridge Track office to meet your guide
and make plans for the next few days. Dine
with the guide at 7.30 pm. Settle in for
a good nights sleep to prepare for tomorrow's
adventure.
Shuttles are available from Queenstown
(2pm), Invercargill (2pm) and Te Anau(8.15am
/ 5.30pm).
DAY 2: Boat across Lake Hauroko, Halfway
Hut
Walk 5 - 6 hours
Track Transport departs Tuatapere 7.30am
for Lake Hauroko. We boat across Lake Hauroko
the deepest lake in New Zealand ( 462 m
) , passing the remains of a Maori princess
called the Princess of the Lake resting
in the cleft of a rock on Mary Island. Steady
walk up the Hauroko Burn to Halfway Hut
Dusky Track
DAY 3: Halfway Hut, Lake Roe
Walk 3 - 5 hours
The track is reasonably flat for the first
two hours then now climbs steeply to above
the bushline. Snow poles and mountain grasses
guide us to Lake Roe Hut (12 bunks), sited
at the northern end of Lake Laffy on Furkert
Pass.
Set amongst massive granite outcrops Lake
Roe is a short walk above the hut with stunning
views of Mt Tamatea.
DAY 4: Lake Roe Hut, Loch Maree
Walk 5 - 7 hours
Traversing along the tops of the Pleasant
Range skirting a series of mountain lakes
with spectacular views of Dusky Sound and
the surrounding mountains. Then plunging
down in to the Seaforth valley and Loch
Maree Hut
DAY 5: Loch Maree, Supper Cove
Walk 6 - 8 hours
Skirting around Loch Maree with trees poking
eerily above the water.....if you can't
see them you are probably staying another
day at Loch Maree! Then follow an old track
cut in 1903 as part of an ambitious road
planned up the Seaforth to Lake Manapouri,
but abandoned well before completion. Supper
Cove Hut (12 bunks ) is situated on the
edge of Dusky Sound.
DAY 6: Supper Cove, Tuatapere
Spectacular helicopter ride from Supper
Cove across the Southern Alps returning
to Tuatapere. |
