Rob Roy Glacier walk   7 November 2008

 

A cool sunny day a few days after an unusually late fall of snow and too much time watching the US elections – a perfect day for one of the very best walks in Wanaka.

Why?                                                                    

• A magnificent valley – the Matukituki, surrounded by snowy peaks
•  A walk through beautiful beech forest and past groves of hoheria glabrata clad in fresh spring lime green leaves –like the area on the Routeburn called the Orchard
• Following the course of a beautiful aquamarine rushing stream whilst listening to the song of the rifleman, the most beautiful tiny little native bird
• To a magnificent hanging glacier where you sit and wait for the next thunderous roar and watch the avalanche roar down the mountain
• And eat lunch whilst getting close and personal with a very wily kea

What better way to restore the soul.

 

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