Wet wet wet

Saturday morning we braved the weather - which wasn't too bad when we left home - and headed out to the Kaitoke Regional Park. There are some lovely bush walks around the river forks there, and it is also one of the venues for the filming of the Lord of the Rings movies. Rivendell is found nestled in the Kaitoke Regional Park.

We chose a short walk due to the weather, thinking we wouldn't get too wet. The sign said 30 minutes return to the forks and back. "Lets just go a little way in and then decide" says I. Big mistake. A little way in was a very steep climb which wasn't too bad until we thought about the return walk back down. It was very wet and slippery.



So we continued walking the track to see where it was going to take us and hoping that there would be another way out, thereby avoiding the very slippery downhill track. I am not sure my back was up to falling down bush tracks. We eventually came to the end of the track after stopping every now and then for a few photo opportunities and we found the road that would take us back to our car.

As we started walking up the road the heavens opened and we suddenly found ourselves getting very wet. Now at this stage we figured if the track was only 15 mins each way, then the car shouldn't be that far down the road. Wrong! We walked solidly for another 30-40 minutes in the heavy rain before we found the car again. It was an adventure I don't think I want to repeat too often.