Nelson Lakes National Park: Bushline Hut / Robert Ridge Route / Angelus Hut
Channel: Ceolskog
Date: 18/12/2022

Episode One (of Two):

Day One - My sister and I hike from Mt Robert Carpark to Bush Line Hut via Pinchgut Track, with a good view of Lake Rotoiti, Saint Arnaud and the St. Arnaud Range. We find a big "elephant weevil" on the way, and some "mountain tōtara". We also pass by the Kea Hut, which we mistake for the "ranger's hut", but it belongs to the Nelson Ski Club.

Day Two - We get up at sunrise to hike back from Bush Line Hut, back to a junction we passed the day before, then to Angelus Hut via Robert Ridge Route. There are patches of snow, weird alpine plants (including one called a "vegetable sheep"), and lots of interesting alpine grasshoppers (but I have not been able to identify the species). I go for a swim in Lake Angelus (on the side where you are allowed to).

Nelson Lakes National Park is in the South Island of New Zealand, at the northern end of the Southern Alps. It was formed after the passing of the National Parks Act in 1952. It was created in 1956 (one of four created in the 1950s). The park contains beech forests, multiple lakes, snow-covered mountains and valleys created by glaciers during the ice ages. (From Wikipedia).

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