Fairy Falls Track - Goodfellow Track - Bloody Stairs Track

Date: 27 June 2014
Party: Anna, Elizabeth, Lesley
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Distance: ?
Elevation: ?
Time: 2.5 hours
Notes: Last time we did this track, we ended up at Fairy Falls, and came DOWN the stairs! This time we started at the Falls and managed to find ALL the stairs within a 5 km radius. Not as much water in the waterfalls as we had hoped after such a wet time in Auckland.True to form, we managed to avoid the heavy rain warning until we were literally taking our boots off back at the car...although we did have a couple of light showers that required Hermione to pull out an umbrella from The Bag of Unknown Volume. Lovely misty forest, lots of birds (including an obliging posing wood pigeon), and plenty of catching up after a number of weird weeks (you know who you are, weird weeks). The strange looking anemone-like pink plant on the side of the track needs a name.

Apple Roll anyone?

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Swanson or Lincoln Road? No, you choose, I insist...

Cat

Poem

Waitakere Rain

Ernest Hemingway found rain to be
made of knowledge, experience
wine oil salt vinegar quince
bed early mornings nights days the sea
men women dogs hill and rich valley
the appearance and disappearance of sense
or trains on curved and straight tracks, hence
love honour and dishonour, a scent of infinity.
In my city the rain you get
is made of massive kauri trees, the call of forest birds
howling dark oceans and mangroved creeks.
I taste constancy, memory and yet
there’s the watery departure of words
from the thunder-black sand at Te Henga Beach.


Paula Green