27/1/22, Day 8, 25km, Total 135km
Elevation Gain: 1017, Loss: 1006m
A splendid day.
Left early (7.00am) as expecting a long day. DOC signs said 6-7hrs to the Great Walk North Arm hut but it only took 4.5hrs. I stopped there for lunch. Looked out the window and 3 deer were sitting on the grass outside the hut. They didn’t care that I stepped outside for a pic. So quiet.
The warden and walkers at the hut were the first people I’d seen in 4 days.
The track for the rest of the way to Oban, being a great walk track, was really good, very little mud or tree roots and mostly gravelled. So I was in Oban by 3.
Managed to get a bed at the Backpackers.
Tomorrow Ulver Island then probably back to Invercargill.
