Thursday, December 15, 2011

WHY YA GOTTA HIKE FAST IN NEW ZEALAND



Hiking in New Zealand's Abal Tasman National Park, our guide, John Glasgow, (that's him in the middle above) kept checking his watch and telling us we had to pick up the pace in order to make it to Awaroa Inlet at low tide. We soon understood his urgency.


Five minutes into our crossing, we were already in ankle deep water as the tide turned and the water rushed in from the Pacific. And five minutes after that ....

We were up to our knees in it.
But our brave little band of hikers made it safely across with more adventures awaiting us on the other side. (Coming next: The Sad, Sad Tale of Evered Hadfield)



1 comment:

George Romero said...

Wasn't it Zack Chasteen who said: Hike fast, marry rich and always park in the shade?