Pelorus River Easter 2000

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Pelorus River - Easter 2000 Jane Loughnan The prospect of Easter combined with ANZACDay was too tempting to ignore! We knew the chances ofgood weather weren' 't great due to the lateness of the holiday but we were willing to take that chance. nearly start on the 7am Topcat meant a quiet By the next morning our luck with the weather and the occasional hot cross bun had run out. Even amounts Easter - crossing copious of Eggs now and then. It was a nice sunny day a couldn't make the rain go away! Wet, wet, wet was good omen.. After a false start we found the roadend the only way to describe it. We reached Rocks and and of course, the only way is up! So up we went. fortified ourselves with soup and chocolate. A welcome rest was taken at Third House, which We decided to press on and walk to the roadend. afforded great views back over Nelson. Windy Point Of course, we did have an ulterior motive, as we didn't live up to its name at all! The views from the wanted to visit the Marlborough vineyards! No views tops were awesome down to Tasman Bay, over across the tops on the way out though, and Windy the Richmond Range, and west towards Kahurangi. Point certainly lived up to its name this time. We plodded on towards Rocks Hut and arrived We were really wet when we got back to the car just on dusk. We hadn'tseen any other trampers and but we eventually found a motel in Stoke. Refreshed, were dismayed to find the 20-bunk Rocks Hut over- clean and dry we went into Nelson the next morning loaded with 25 people from the Hawkes Bay. We for brunch, then back to Marlborough. We found a tried to make a bit of space SO we could sleep backpackers in Renwick and used the old bikes that somewhere "somewhere" ended up being the they had at the hostel to head out to explore some floor. There was one person (later determined tol be local produce. We slept well that night! awoman!) who had the worst snoring and flatulence Now normally this would be the end of the story, we'd ever heard. but we have to mention our Lynx trip home. To: say The next day was lovely and we were ambushed we thought we might not make it is not an by fantails all the way down the ridge. We reached exaggeration! Fourand-a-half-metre southerly swells the Pelorus River what an amazing river of in Cook Strait saw us being tossed about like a emerald green! It didn't take us long to get to volleyball. We were the last Lynx sailing to get into Roebuck Hut. It was such a nice day that we sat in Wellington for nearly 24 hours! We were glad to get the grass and soaked up the sun. home! Windy Pont Dun Mountan Track DUN SADDLE DUN MOI INTAIN RS S HS HRD OK STREE 0 St Tramping and Mountaineering 2000