Caples - Greenstone Circuit
Day 2 - Upper Caples Hut
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We were thinking of doing a sidetrip this day up onto the nearby tops -
but it rained on and off for most of the day - so we spent the day
reading with the occasional break outside the hut for some
photo-pfaffing
Above - the comfortable Upper Caples Hut
Above - some of the hills outside
Above - rainbow
Above - The Caples River
Above -river cobbles - red from some type of fungi or lichen
Above - The Caples River
Above - river cobbles
Above - river cobbles
Above - Celery Pine (Phyllocladus alpinus) - it looks very similar to me to the Tasmanian variety (Phyllocladus aspleniifolius)
Above - The Caples River
Above - beech
Above - there were three types of beech growing nearby - L to R - the larger leafed Red Beech, Silver Beech and Mountain Beech
Above - in the forest
Above - detail
Above - in the forest
Above - The Caples River
Above - The Caples River
Above - The Caples River
Above - The Caples River
Above - fungi
Above - small stream
Above - small stream
Above - small stream
Above - detail
Above -small stream
Above - The Caples River
Above - The Caples River
Above - The Caples River
Above - fungi
Above - The Caples River - Chuin Nee crossing the bridge to Fraser and Kay creeks
Continue to Day 3 where we continue up the Caples
River and over a saddle to Lake McKellar and the nwe walk down
the Upper Greenstone to McKellar Hut
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