Tararua 2e

Tararua2 Day 5
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Day 5: (Wednesday 4th March 2009) This day was less demanding on the navigators and "grunts", needing to just follow the track on the true right of the Waingawa River to Mitre Flats Hut.
Plan for Day 5 (2 days behind)	Look back at bridge KB625	by the river IB357	John & Alan IB361
Plan for Day 5 (2 days behind)	precarious track IB365	but great vistas KB628	similar but with polariser KB630
The river track was not always easy, with some dodgy sections over slips, muddy bits on river flats and the odd time the track seemed to disappear (pays to watch the markers not the pig tracks). There was some mist on a river flat but I discovered the misty photo was some mist on the lens filter!
?misty bush KB63	River (L) or mud (R)? JS139	Graham on river CT429c	I coped the mud! JS140
More vistas KB640	Graham resting CT431	My view KB642a	John's view JS144
The best butterfly shot IB369	butterfly shooters IB370	Ian had more Megapxels CT437a	Bush track JS146
Graham & Cathy KB644a	John KB647a	Ian & Jim KB648a	Ian KB649
I'd better say something here, just to provide a visual break to the pictures.
Jim KB652	Supplejack true knot KB657	Alan CT439	Ian and Keith CT441d
Alan & Cathy come up KB658a	Cathy's webbed fork CT447	Stone troll head KB667a	Tranquil pool KB668a
Composite river panorama KB681-2		Stream study KB684	View over slip KB689
Down on river KB693	Graham @ Mitre Flats Hut KB694b	Keith & John arrive CT449b	At Mitre Flats CT450a
Cathy et al JS151a	Drying @ Mitre Flats Hut AR828a	Alan getting vitamin D CT453	Cathy's sunset CT462
Dinner? -Soup entrée (?Chicken) with the main of Beef Madras mix (x2 = "Indian Hot") with Back Country Beef Mince x2, Nutrella and dried veges over basmati rice. Dessert was a variety of dried NZ fruit and a sample of Back Country "Icecream" (a bit like strawberry mousse).