Today was dominated by the decision whether or not to ford the Rangitata River. After a fair bit of consultation home to see what the river and weather was doing I decided I didn't like the forecast of rain in the mountains, together with the news that the river level had started to rise during the night. Arrangements were duly put in place for Karen to play taxi and pick us up. One ruined Saturday for her, she's an angel! However it left us with a really easy few kilometres dropping down to Bush Stream, then down to the river.This meant a fair few crossings of Bush Stream, which was quite high, up to about bum level in places. The first crossing didn't go so well for me; I ended up grovelling around on hands and knees with water up to my chin, but the rest of the crossings were much better.
Within 3 hours we were at the car park, then 45 minutes spent having a dip in the stream and some lunch saw Karen turn up and a trip home to Rangiora for a few days.
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