A Warm, Familiar Place

Each weekend for the past few months we have endeavoured to get out and hike.  This is mainly to work ourselves into shape for our upcoming Christmas hike along the Heaphy Track.  This will be an eighty kilometre hike across an incredibly beautiful and diverse landscape and is considered one of the Great Walks of New Zealand, which is saying something because most of the hikes here are already pretty great.    Originally, we had intended to go back up into the high country and do another peak hike but, at the last minute, we found out we had to head into town to get our son his vaccine passport.  Now, being a fan of government overreach and being more than willing to sacrifice all of my freedoms to support a tyrannical regime, we rushed off to our local pharmacy and GP to do our bit to oppress the masses.  

After our brief detour, we decided to do one of our favourite "in town" walks, Godley Head.  We started off at Taylor's Mistake and headed along the coast.  It was an incredibly pleasant, if slightly warm day, so the surfers were out in force and we enjoyed watching them bobbing and weaving through the waves down below.  This is a fairly easy walk with minimal elevation gain so the going was easy.  The turquoise water always astounds.  We look forward to our next visit.