Hydro Canals - Tekapo to Twizel

Tekapo Canal

The highlight of the day was sampling some Sockeye Salmon from the Mt Cook Salmon farm that is immersed in the canal.
After 36 kms of walking on lots of lumpy gravel tracks, we found a delightful informal campsite on the shores of Lake Pukaki, complete with table, cooking shelter, “armchairs” made from slabs of stone for a backrest and pine needles for the seat. It was all just wonderful and we were congratulating ourselves on our great find when horror of horrors I stepped in poo. Human poo. Don’t laugh, it was NOT funny. It really is not that hard to dig a hole if you need to and you do wonder about the human race sometimes. Grrrrr.

Campsite, Lake Pukaki

From our campsite it was a short walk along the “Alps to Ocean” cycle track all the way into Twizel. We were surrounded by barren rolling hills, depleted grazing lands and we had to watch we didn’t step in rabbit holes. Lining the track were countless numbers of empty cartridge shells, but it seems the rabbits are still winning - at one moment in time we counted 13 rabbits (a bevy?, a fester?) crossing the path ahead.

Notes:

Day 44: Tekapo to Pukaki informal camp. 37 km
Day 45: Pukaki informal camp to Twizel motorcamp. 20 km