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Orongorongo River

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Strange clouds over Wellington
Orongorongo River
Shamrock Hut, about 1 1/2 hours north of Big Bend on the left bank of Orongorongo River
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Soaked socks and shoes, and heaps of sand and gravel
Nicky and Julia preferred camping outside above sleeping in the hut
Sara, Julia, Kate and Mike
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crossing Orongorongo River
wading upstream through Orongorongo river
A massive flood caused tremendous devastation last year, covering nearby forest with a 3m layer of gravel
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A massive flood caused tremendous devastation last year, covering nearby forest with a 3m layer of gravel
a river of gravel that was deposited here after a big flood. Over years, the forest will slowly recover as plants, ferns and trees reclaim their territory
Kate
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Kate
Nicky, Kate and Caren
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This massive tree trunk shows how powerful the river can be.
Kate, Sara, Nicky, Mike and Julia, posing in Orongorongo River
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Somewhere up a small side stream, a Grey Warbler was guarding its nest
clambering up a small stream
Searching for ways to climb further up this stream
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It's hard to see, but this is where we climbed up
and finding our way back down again
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minute flowers - the name has escaped me unfortunately. I'm not as botanically savvy as my fellow trampers...
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Orongorongo River and Caren, to give you an idea of scale
me and Nicky
The rocks in this area are unstable and a faultline runs right through them. that's why you see these huge amounts of gravel, and this is where it comes from. Half of the hill slipped right down here
Galerie