Milford Track, Day 4

11 1/2 miles to go and 7 hours to do it! And we better hurry because there's a boat to catch at the end of it, and we can't be late! (We were not going to hike back to the cabin that night if we missed it). Not so much time for pictures, but the weather was great and the trail was easy, so even though it was tough, we still made it.

I love the little "hobbit holes" that you find in all of the trees here.

















And here we did appreciate the McLeigh Falls on the way out. The story was that McLeigh and Sutherland flipped a coin to see who would get to name the falls. Sutherland lost and had to settle for naming the next waterfall the two of them found (which happened to be the 580 m waterfall we saw the day before).












Beautiful red beech trees along the way. Mom's become a wood "connoisseur" these days, so she always takes time to admire the wood that we pass.

















Here's an interesting graffiti that we saw on the way too. Apparently, a prison work group dug out the rock from the trail, and some of them marked it. Well, graffiti is always cool when it's more than century old.









And here are at the end! We made it! We made it! It was really tough to walk down stairs the next few days, but we made it!