We left the school at about four o’clock and traveled with Mr Farrell in the school’s pocket rocket hostel van with Mr Dixon in his Hilux taking Georgia, Sydney and Tiana. It was the moment we had been waiting for after weeks of anticipation and planning.
After a long drive on a winding road we arrived at the start of the Chinaman's hut tramp on Otekaieke Station.
We then had to make sure we had gathered our tents, billys, gas and cookers that we would need in order to survive the night off Mr Dixon. We then began the hour and a bit long tramp. The tramp included many crossings of the river so we had to be prepared to get wet feet more than once.
When we had made the tramp up to the hut we put up our tent and began cooking our tea.Then finally it was time to sit down and have a rest and enjoy our tea under a rather overcast and rain threatening sky.Thankfully it didn’t come to much more than light drizzle until we needed to walk back to our tent after a visit to the others inside the hut. It was then time to go to bed.
The next day we were up and ready for a walk to the top of the valley to see a waterfall. Luckily for us we could leave our tramping packs with the tents back at the hut while we were gone.
After another hour tramp we got to the waterfall and it was awesome, although the deep pool of icy water below was a bit chilling. After taking some photos we made our way back to the hut to get some lunch. Heading back we found a cool cave like nook in the rock which was also another photo opportunity.
It was then time to pack up and put on our packs for the grueling walk back which proved to be a lot easier than on the way there. It was now all downhill!
When we finally made it back to the vehicles it was a relief to get our packs off our shoulders and know we didn't have to carry them any further.
The tramp was heaps of fun with lots of laughs and good times to be remembered.
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