C'est LA viE

I am not a local, but had been staying Palmy for nearly 1 and a half year, I guess is time for me to tramp the Manawatu gorge.

Well luckily the social comittee from my company organized this tramping event, and is totally free!!!

The last time I went for tramping had been a while ago, it was last summer, omg, means I ald missed tramping for nearly a year, wow.

I used to love tramping a lot, but somehow my lazy bugs in my body really annoyed from long distance walking, lol.

But today, is time!!

So there are like nearly 40 of us, all from the company, a small number are the employee's partner.

We splited into 2 groups, one started from the Ashurst end, another group started from the Woodville end.

My team started from the Woodville end, we started around 8am.

The weather was brilliant!

these kind of cage with an egg inside are found many times along the side of the track, it was used to catch posseums.

The track actually really easy, and it dint take much time to finish the half way....

why half way? haha bcz the 2 teams supposed to meet during lunch time to exchange car keys, well bcz it a long track but not a route.

So we eventually will arrive the end which the other team departed from....And this is the meeting point! The windmill farm!

but the other group was so slow, we waited for nearly an hour at the meeting point, eventually we rang them, and decided to continue our track.

Finally, all of us also met each other!  

after exchanged keys, we continued the track~

Actually we could see many native bushes and plants along the track....but too bad I dint able to see any native unique birds...

mushrooms~

huge fern leaf!

This is the gorge!

even got this, hole in a big tree! I went in, and actually used my torch on my phone to look what's inside.

Spider webs!!! Very dark and scary~

the track really well maintained, and very safe.

But never knows that the track ended via highway! woo....