Waipohatu Falls Catlins New Zealand

by Joan Carroll

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Waipohatu Falls Catlins New Zealand

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Joan Carroll

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Photograph - Photography And Digital Art

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We decided one afternoon to visit the Waipohatu Waterfalls in the Catlins area of New Zealand. We had read that it was the “best day walk…BY FAR” in the area but that it was little known and little used. Sounded perfect to us! The Waipohatu Waterfall Loop is a 6.5 km loop track through thick forest, taking you to two waterfalls only about 100m apart, this lower one called Punehu falls. If we had read some of the online comments about the hike ahead of time we might not have gone…’path is not that well maintained’, not worth the hike ‘if it has been raining’ (uh-oh, the Catlins had gotten record flooding rain the week previous), ‘the trail is an absolute mess’, and so on. The trail WAS muddy, but so was every other trail we’d been on. At that point, we were accustomed on our hikes to picking our way from one least-wet spot to another, and then cleaning the mud from our boots afterwards. The one thing that was true from the initial recommendation was that it was little used! We thought we were going to make it all the way through without seeing anyone else but then we did see two other people. This hike really let you get away from it all in a part of the country where you already feel like you are getting away from it all! The dead tree lying across the waterfalls seems to have been there for several years, as some older photos also show it. I half-thought about cloning it out but then decided that by now it had achieved legacy status so I left it in!

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Joan carroll, forest, falls, stream, nature

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