Kepler Track Day Three

Day three was a six hour walk along the banks of the Iris Burn River. It's in a temperate rain forest, and the white stuff on the ground in the first two photos is lichen. Some of it looks a bit like the Olympic Rain Forest. It rains there more days than not, so it was amazing that they had perfect sunshine for the third day in a row.

Dave thought the colorful mushrooms below were so amazingly big, he put his foot into the photo so we could see their size.

The Iris Burn River flows into Lake Manapouri, and at the end of the day, they arrived at the lake.

Below is the hut where they stayed the third night, on the shores of Lake Manapouri