New Zealand - 2015

Takitimu Mountains Walk - 18 - 20 February 2015

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Party - Wendy, Dave



Above - The Takitimu Mountains - Panorama

We drove into the Lower Princhester Hut on the Bog Burn and stayed at the hut the first night. The next day we crossed the range and camped in the headwaters of the Waterloo Burn. The day after we returned to the Princhester Hut, and after lunch drove to Te Anau.



Above - Looking at Clares Peak in the Takitimu Mountains



Above - The Bog Burn



Above - Russula sororia



Above - Fuligo septica (Dogs Vomit) - slime mould



Above - Lichen and moss









Above - Russula sororia



Above - The Bog Burn



Above - Fuligo septica (Dogs Vomit) - slime mould







Above - slime mould



Above - slime mould



Above - slime mould



Above - Black tooth - Phellodon sinclairii



Above - Lemon Drop Button - Bisporella citrina



Above - in the hut - Wendy writing up her journal



Above - view from outside the hut



Above - Lower Princhester Hut







Above - Wendy photographing Gymnopilus junonius



Above - Gymnopilus junonius



Above - Wendy admiring the beech forest



Above - Beech forest







Above - Wendy on the track at a creek crossing



Above - view from near our campsite





Above - our campsite was at the far end of the tussock country



Above - Kings Pouch - Cortinarius porphyroideus



Above - Looking up towards Clares peak



Above - slime mould



Above - Mycena interrupta



Above - Mycena interrupta



Above - Mycena sp



Above - Kings Pouch - Cortinarius porphyroideus



Above - Callopsus epipterygius

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