Party: Anna, Princess Elizabeth, Lesley
Map: http://nztramper.com/peripatus-anderson-fence-line-waitakere-tramline-tracks-loop/
Distance: 10.95
Elevation: up to about 280m and down to about 60m
Time: 4 hours
Notes: This was one of those walks where you are minding you own business and you see the weirdest things.
- We fell over the Waitakere? Swanson? Filtering Station at the end of Christian Road. Who knew? Lovely chaps directed us to the car park.
- Parked the car and got out to an indescribably bad smell, which we can only attribute to the emus. Or a dead body. Either way, don't bring one home with you.
- How does a track get to be called the Peripatus Track? Please explain, Peri.
- Now we know how homeless people keep their belongings safe - they use ropes to pull their gear up into huge trees. They also like to hide their rubbish at your favourite lunch spot.
- Why did the house up the road from the Filtering Station have a convention of doll's heads impaled on the fence? Possibly more disturbing was the 'Staff Entry Only' sign.
- There are more than 400 steps up Fenceline Track, if you are heading in the direction of the Waitakere Tramline Track. That's quite a lot. It was funnier the last time we did it in the other direction.
- There are two tunnels in this circuit - we love tunnels and buying special torches to light our way. They were a bit short to really test our range of technical lighting equipment.
- What is the point of a sign that says children should be supervised by an adult in an area where the only thing stopping them from falling over a waterfall 100 metres high is a three-string wire fence?!
- Kowhai are not in blossom in September. Dammit. Dammit.
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