Stewart Island - Rakiura Track

Stewart island was the start of Semester break just short of 3 weeks long. As i made my way down the East coast, i passed by Dunedin, Gore, Invercargil and more. After taking a ferry over to Stewart island, I stayed in a backpackers for the night. While waiting for my mates to come in on the ferry, I ran out to Ackers point and trekked around Horseshoe Bay during the day. Once Zach, Zac, Paddy, and Andy came in, we immediately caught a ferry out to Lee bay and began hiking to our camp site...in the dark. We camped out on the beach and the next morning began our 6 hour hike through the forest. (Stewart Island by the way is the closest point you can get to Antartica and we were hiking in shorts and T-shirts) It had recently rained a heeps and made for quite a muddy trek! We reached our next camp site and set up camp again. The next morning we woke up and finished our 3 day hike. But not before Paddy cut his finger open while slicing cheese. He ended up gettin 6 stitches in Invercargil. After we made our way to Queenstown and feasted on FERGBURGER. then some drunky was so kind to pull the fire alarm at 4 in the morning....how nice. Anyways, i awoke the next morning to make my bus back to Christchurch to stay at a friends house until my next adventure....