Stewart Island - 3 Day Rakiura Track Day 1

Here P&A coming!!! Stewart Island, the southern most island of NZ which is our first time that closest to Antarctica, anyway, it still very very far from South Poles. >.< We are ready packed with 3 days of food and cooking utensils for our very first multi day hike! Hehe so excited, as we have no experience for hiking overnight and under such cold weather in the south.. We took the ferry ride $142 return pp from Bluff.

Kia Ora~

We are ready! Got ourselves the track map and weather information from the DOC info site. And now our beginning of a total 39km walk for three days =)

It is here at Stewart Island we hope to spot  a kiwi in the wild...

Oops so fast calling for help?

Take a break and look at the sky =)

Beautiful track along the beach...

Had our lunchiee...We made sure we had enough carb to complete the hike.. 

Super big blue mussel found at Maori beach.. Yay, we can have extra side dish for dinner tonight.. It's always fun to gather shell fish and to put the 10kg+ backpack down for a while..

Arrived at our first hut, Port William Hut.. Woohoo

Nice hut, there are cooking stoves provided in the summer, but it is still spring now so we had to bring our own.. And there is no heater.. Hope it won't be too cold..

Wood pigeon..

Our dinner... Cooked this morning at Bluff =)

Cooking our mussels, we offered them to other people sharing the hut but no one dares to try as they are afraid of getting an upset stomach and affect their 3 day hike =P

Yummyyyyy, the freshest ever!