Club night November 2016

The Tramping Club’s main trip in the last month was to the Edwards and Hawdon Valleys in the Arthurs Pass area.

In ideal weather 4 members arranged a car at each end and then walked up the Edwards Valley to the Edwards hut. The next day was over Tarn Col to Hawdon Hut, with a short walk down Hawdon Valley to the car on the final day.

Herbert Forest now has stoat and possum traps spaced out along its 3 tracks with a few more to be placed on the 2 loop tracks. The Club will check the traps regularly. We look forward to more bird life in the future in this podocarp remnant forest.

The Wednesday Walkers had 2 day trips on the A2O bike trail because of wet weather making access to other areas difficult. They also walked the Andersons Lagoon to Shag River Mouth, Kurinui Creek Circuit and Domett Loop below Little Domett.

Coming Tramping Club Trips are an A2O return bike ride from Duntroon to Kurow on November 20.

Contact Phyllis by Friday if you want to come. Thousand Acre Plateau trip is planned for 2-6 December. The Christmas Party is on the 12 December. See the NOTMC website for details of these events.

There will be a Mt. Potts trip in late January.

The night’s speaker was our own adventure traveller Bronwyn McCone, who recently spent a month on the Spirt of Enderby cruising to Antarctic via the sub Antarctic Islands with 50 other passengers.

There was never a dull moment with bird watching, whale watching and guest passenger lectures while at sea, walks or coastal zodiac boating around the Sub Antarctic Islands, and a historical visit to the Ross Sea coastline.

Highlights were visits to Shackleton’s and Scott’s huts with all the stores and furnishings still there, McMurdo and Scott Bases with a population of up to 2000 in the summer and cruising the Ross Ice Shelf with spectacular photos of ice walls and caves, Adelie and Emperor penguins, seals and sea lions and distant views of smoking volcano Mt. Erebus.

A never to be forgotten trip.