On Saturday me and my family walked up Mt Herbert. We had to catch a boat from Lyttleton to Diamond Harbor at 7:10. When we got to Diamond Harbor we were in time to see the stunning sunset.At the top of the hill it was super cold. Half way up the hill you could find small patches of snow on the ground. Then as we got further up the hill ( we were walking on a farm track) the water troughs for the cows were frozen over. It was fun throwing snowballs at each other. Multiple times I tried to pick up sheets of ice that had frozen over the troughs but the result was . . . wet me!
When the hillside ( or should I say mountainside, 7 kilometres of steep - ish up hill ) got a bit slippery we had to be careful because...
I was running on a small bit of down hill and slipped over. The result was that my pants got absolutely soaked through and muddy so I had to wear track pants. My brother Lewis also fell over. On the way up the best thing was seeing these very cute and fluffy cows. The best thing on the way down was sliding on the snow.
Here are some photos . . .
This is me and Lewis looking at the frozen over water troughs
This is a the view from half way up the mountain.
This was the stunning sunset from Diamond Harbor
Kia ora Isla, what a great thing to do in the holidays. Love your sunset photo of Diamond Harbour. How long did the walk take you? Sorry to hear you fell over but that's easy to do in winter! But I'm sure the adventure you had made up for the muddy pants. Thank goodness you brought an extra pair of track pants. Elizabeth K
ReplyDeleteOpps it was a sunrise photo. Just a mistake, Yep it is easy to fall over. The walk took around 5 hours but it was worth it. Yep thank goodness for the track suit trousers.
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