Our accommodation for 2 nights was to be a large, very comfortably equipped timber house perched where the native forest ran out at 1,000 feet. After a shower in our spacious en-suite bathroom there were drinks and canapés at 6pm followed by dinner prepared by Nicky, who is, amongst her other accomplishments, a cordon bleu cook.
After dinner we sat out on the timber terrace/deck listening to the soundtrack of the forest in the dark. Suddenly a Kea flew into the top of a nearby tree. Nicky put some cheese on the balustrade and the bird came to get it.
Shearwater Lodge, as we saw it when walking up the mountain on the second day.
Postcard picture taken from the next mountain.
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