VARIED SCENERY.
TRAMPERS ENTHUSIASTIC,
(SPECIAL TO THB m?9S.) WE&TPORT, January 4. Messrs F. 11. Haigh (Auckland), E. C. terries, R. Beattie, and J. R. Moloney (.Christchurch), who tramped through from Bainham, Collingwood County, to Karamea and from there came on to \\ e.stport, described the track as the iinest forest walk in the Dominion. Indeed, one of the party enthusiastically spoke of it as "One of the world s greatest forest walks." I'or variety of scenery in surpassed the Milford Track. The scenery of the latter is of one type, whereas that on this route is richly varied—bush, mountain. and river—ant! there is also a great variety of plant life on the mountains. The variety of the ferns, said Mr Haigh, was beyond compare. \ative birds of every kind also abound. They say they have never seen a beach as a pleasure resort to compare with that of the Heaphy. Hie trampers found excellent accommodation at Heaphy in a hut with five bunks erected by the Buller County Council, but suggested that two other huts should be erected as those en route were rather far apart. Ther soolep highly of the data supplied to them at the outset of the trip hv Mr Bayfield, of the Tourist Office. Christchurch.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19200, 5 January 1928, Page 11
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208VARIED SCENERY. Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19200, 5 January 1928, Page 11
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