30.26: New Zealand: Mount Alford. 30.27 Mt Kinga 30.28 Castle Hill region.
Reaching the peak, Mount Alford, overlooking rich farmlands. This is the last posting of New Zealand (not that anything is expected to happen in that country to make it disappear) to be followed by a finale from Australia. After a trip that we would both agree was hard to beat, besides the fact the mountain challenges were spectacular and we succeeded now and again, we met so many interesting people and had some equally fascinating experiences. Obviously, they are too numerous to mention. Nevertheless, something innocuous, which one of us found both amusing and delightful but would probably be most uninteresting to anyone else occurred on the last day of the Abel Tasman tramp. I would think Jenni enjoyed it too, particularly the taste of it. (see below...) When we were part way up one of the mountains, we expected the white structure to be the end point. This is a 'zoomed in' picture of the structure in the picture above, from the top. We misjudged that one on Al...