Walking off the Excess

Boxing Day 2015

After a festive family feast of great indulgence and lots of treats, Boxing Day dawned to a beautiful day.

My sister, her friends and I took a walk out on Banks Peninsula up to the Packhorse Hut which affords great vistas of the Lyttleton harbour and across the other side of the peninsula to Lake Ellesmere.

The Packhorse hut is one of many resthouses on the peninsula that are a legacy of Henry George Ell.

The Walk

I am looking forward to some more walks and getting out and exploring the peninsula while I am home over the New Year. How was your Boxing Day? Hope it was relaxing and well spent!

Yoroshiku Onegai shimasu

Leanne

10 responses to “Walking off the Excess”

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Enjoy your time at home! 🙂 Looks beautiful. If I were to do that hike as a tourist, would it be easy/safe? Or do you need to know stuff? We were looking at NZ as a holiday destination last year beacause of the beautiful nature, but it seemed that lots of hikes and activities were quite difficult if you don’t have experience?

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leannenz December 28, 2015 at 4:19 am · · Reply →

Very easy! It is more of a day walk. Google the Crater rim walk way Christchurch. My friend and I often did it in sections and then one day did about 4 or 5 sections in one hit which was a big day. It is basically day hikes.
This is one I haven’t done yet but you can walk it yourself and carry your own gear or get your packs transported to each destination and just walk with a day pack
http://www.bankstrack.co.nz/
The big famous one are the MIlford track . It is a three maybe four day hike. Pretty sure you need to book for it. The information centres here are great. Only thing I would say is you probably need transport to get to the trail heads to start the walk. I may well be home next year so if you are coming over let me know!

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- snowsomewhere December 28, 2015 at 4:23 am · · Reply →
  
  Thanks for the info, I saved it 🙂
  
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leannenz December 28, 2015 at 4:24 am · · Reply →

http://www.christchurchnz.com/walk-canterbury/ Alot of these day walks are very doable with a day park on well ,arked tracks
http://www.christchurchnz.com/walk-canterbury/

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Wow lovely pictures!

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leannenz December 27, 2015 at 5:27 pm · · Reply →

Thanks Lyn. So lovely to be home!

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- Lynz Real Cooking December 27, 2015 at 9:06 pm · · Reply →
  
  I am sure!
  
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Gorgeous, Leanne. Glad you made it safely and are having fun.

janet

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leannenz December 27, 2015 at 5:28 pm · · Reply →

Thanks Janet! Had a lovely day catching up with old school mates today and a small walk with my dad and “Jingle puppy”

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