Mount Field National Park Part 1

Mt Field National Park, should be kept under cover so the Russian don’t find it, what a stunning place, our arrival was easy and we got setup up then our neighbours came home, I said I hope you don’t mind a coupla dodgy kiwis setting up next to you, the lady replied as long as you don’t mind being setup up by two other dodgy Kiwis…well that sealed the deal.

John and Robyn were the camp commandants and Robyn was born and bred in our Queenstown 60 km south of our hometown Wanaka.

We hit it off very well as the are very coul people and like proper Kiwis bent over backwards to help and make our stay awesome, this wasn’t special for us only, they genuinely were doing an awesome job welcoming everyone in, that human contact and welcoming is dying in this stupid and fast age so it was extremely refreshing, onya guys.

Part of our mission was to go up to strathgordon and beyond to see the dam, staying 2 nights at Mt Field National Park we piled off into the abyss exploring our way in and around, the more we saw and read, the more our stay was getting extended. The dam was a living and working piece of art, 140 m high, elliptical in its curve from above and curved in against the water side, the front wall curved differently to the rear giving it a 3.3 m wide top and 17.7 m base.

 

It took two years to build which in 1974 was excellent, it wasn’t without controversy however the people who would complain about it are the same people enjoying the electricity from it using their laptop to write the complaint…just saying.

In the forest there are massive tress and stunning waterfalls, majestic place.

  

While at the park we had some lean temperatures but with plenty look at it did not matter.

Part two coming up next