21 April 2007

Forbes Track

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From the horizon to right up close: a kauri trunk with rata finding its way up the trunk.

We're still heading down quite steadily.

At head height a spray of green nikau berries offers an uncommonly good opportunity for a closeup.

The bush is quite dense on either side of the track.

Here is the right angle nikau mentioned by Lee Anne Parore and Alison Dench in WALKING THE WAITAKERE RANGES

To the side of the track, nikau make a strong statement.

The track is quite muddy here and there.

At the foot of a kanuka, a small lacebark can be seen.

Apropos of nothing obvious, we are reminded part way along that we are on the Forbes Track. there are one or two signs around in this format, and once again, somebody knows the story, and I'd love to hear it.

We head on down.

The tgrack is beginning to drop away quite steadily, and the drain down the middle is appreciatively deeper.

The track becomes increasingly a "one step at a time" process.

For the next little bit, I'm concentrating for the most part on not slipping,until finally we level out again and shortly afterwards emerge onto the Centennial Track