We spent the night at Lake Ferry hotel. We had a charming room with a fireplace. Good that it had a fireplace, buildings in New Zealand are basically just wooden tents. We had a shared bathroom and shower facilities with the rest of the hotel. We also had a wonderful fish and chip dinner at the hotel restaurant. Then in the morning we felt so sluggish but we got up anyway and hike around the Pinnacles.
We had the campground at the start of the trail to ourselves at first and when we first got out of the car I could swear that I smelled sage brush. I felt like I was in eastern Washington. Australian magpies we singing from the bush and their delightful songs echoed in the valley.
I wanted to take the low trail, Abra wanted to take the high trail, so we took both. I wanted to walk in the pinnacles Abra wanted to look down on them. Admittedly the view from above was better. But I would still have wondered what it would be like to walk among them if we had not gone up the riverbank first.
There were clam and snail fossils everywhere! They were all in rocks that were far too big to take home so they were left for everyone to enjoy. We had lunch and coffee under the sand and rock towers and then climbed up the look out and then we walked back down to the car via the ridge track.
We agreed that we were glad that we took the river up and the ridge down. The ridge track was steep.
3 miles with 1,100 feet elevation gain for the day.
Some pictures from our walk to a seal colony off the Wainuiomata coast road. We will be back to look for seals when we have more time.
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