Greenstone Track Day 2 and back to Queenstown

January 18th, 2003 at 12:00am

I’ve been back in Queenstown for 2 days now – staying with Sharlene again, the Kiwi girl who picked me up on the way down from Christchurch. I hiked out from the Greenstone Track the other day – 4 hours down to the road and another 2.5 hours of road walk in the hot sun before 3 teenage kids finally picked me up and gave me a lift all the way back to Queenstown. Man was I glad for that. The sun was sweltering. Once in Queenstown I called Sharelene and she said yeah, no problem to stay with her again for a few days. Great! I was so happy to have a home to go to. Since then we’ve been hanging out, having coffee in town every day and barbecues with friends at night. It’s been really good. I’m going to stick around until Monday and then catch a ride to Wanaka with Sharlene where I’ll start the next tramp.

Walking out of the Greenstone Track

The road walk begins

Views of the lake on the road walk

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