Walking to Cape Wrath, Day 14, May 24, 2022
Walking to Cape Wrath, Day 14, May 24, 2022 Woke at 5:00 to the crowing of a pheasant which was soon accompanied by what I took to be a mockingbird imitating R2D2. My tent was pitched behind a corrugated steel shed in the middle of an unoccupied stonewall-enclosed pasture. Of course the sun was already […]
Walking to Cape Wrath, Day 13, May 23, 2022
Walking to Cape Wrath, Day 13, May 23, 2022 A typical day hiking New Zealand’s Te Araroa on the South Island is rising in the morning to hike alongside a river, heading upstream so the path continually rises as the river diminishes. Usually by around noon, the trail crosses a saddle, and you can look […]
Walking to Cape Wrath, Day 12, May 22, 2022
Walking to Cape Wrath, Day 12, May 22, 2022 When I was a wee lad, my father taught me to make him a drink for his just-home-from-work relaxation. He drank Scotch whiskey (here, just whiskey) and my favorite glass to give him had a picture of a ring-necked pheasant etched on the side. I never […]