We arrived to our campground a little later than expected because of a late start in Dunedin. Nevertheless, after the long drive set up camp, made dinner, Cody practiced his flyfish casting, some watched a movie, and our night concluded with star gazing. The following morning we went on a cruise within Milford Sound. It was beautiful! Unsurprisingly though, it was a bit cloudy and our pictures don’t look nearly as good as the advertisements. We then went back to camp, packed up and got ready for our two day hike on the Routeburn Track.
The Routeburn Track is 32km and we planned to do it in two days, with a campout in the middle. The first day was a bit of an incline, but all in all, relatively easy. We had to stop every hour to wait for others to catch up and fortunately on our second stop there was a boulder on the side of the trail that I cleaned/climbed around on for a bit. It took some of us just under three hours. After a few jumps in the lakes on the way up and misty views, we made dinner and played a movie/actor correlation game. Cody, bringing his two fly fishing rods, and Dash, who the day prior got a fly fishing license, planned to get up early, hike out before everyone else and go fish. Cobi and I decided to join, intrigued by the option to be on a ridge by sunrise. So the following morning we got up at 4, left by 4:30 and managed to cut an hour and a half off of the anticipated hike time to the hut where we took a break for an hour and made breakfast. It was the start to probably one of my favorite days here! We find out that there isn’t fishing on the trail and instead walk all the way to the carpark, (a total of 8 hours—including our breakfast break and random creek inquiries) to have lunch by 12:30. Our group leaders Bree and Doug drove around (since the hike was a crossing) and got there two hours later. I went down to the river with Dash and Cody, Cobi watched our belongings, to take pictures of the action. Cody hooked and caught a Rainbow Trout! Ohh, and with my lack of hiking shoes (intentionally) I hiked the whole thing in my Chaco’s with wool socks. It worked out stellar :)! Especially walking through the creek with the boys!
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