About A Maverick Traveller: The Podcasts of Mary Jane Walker
This is the channel for the podcasts of New Zealand author, blogger and adventurer Mary Jane Walker ('A Maverick Traveller'). Mary Jane has published twelve books of travel memoirs, several of which are now audiobooks on Gumroad. For more, see her website a-maverick.com!
This post follows up my two earlier posts about the wild Catlins region of New Zealand. I went through in a campervan at the start of June 2021. I visit the waterfalls, and list freedom camping sites. Information about freedom camping sites can be a bit hard to come by, so I have made the effort to identify all five such sites in the Catlins. I also describe other camping spots, including beautiful Pūrākaunui Bay, my favourite.
12 Jun 2021
Lake Marian: Camping and Looking at the Routeburn
THE Lake Marian Track has lately become very popular, although tourist numbers are down at present because of Covid (so, if in NZ already, you should go there!). The track begins from Marian Carpark, one kilometre down the unsealed Hollyford Road from its intersection with the Milford Road, (https://www.a-maverick.com/blog/milford-road-why-spend-day-milford-sound-piopiotahi-can-spend-week) some ninety kilometres out from Te Anau. It now has a wooden gantry only 20 minutes in, from which you can admire the Marian Falls, which are really more like rapids. Even if you don’t do the rest of the track, you can still walk to the gantry . . . All in all, this is one of the best little short trips that you can do from the road in New Zealand! Indeed, the travel writer GirlEatWorld has described Lake Marian as “my favorite experience in New Zealand so far (https://girleatworld.net/lake-marian-hike-new-zealand/).”
8 Jun 2021
Around Mount Taranaki by the Southern Side
The Taranaki (NZ) Around the Mountain Circuit turned into an epic for me!
I only got halfway before falling into a ravine on the way north and injuring myself, so the northern side will have to be written up some other time. But meanwhile, here are some thoughts on doing the southern side. Which is what you miss out if, like a lot of people, you only tramp around the northern side of the mountain, handy to New Plymouth, where the popular Pouakai Track and (Northern) Summit Route are located.
I decided to go up to Syme Hut, next to Fanthams Peak/Panitahi, which you can see on the left of the featured image. Then I hiked through all kinds of wonderful terrain, before getting lost on poorly signposted and maintained track and injuring myself, and needing to be helicoptered out.
Original blog post: a-maverick.com/blog/around-mount-taranaki (https://www.a-maverick.com/blog/around-mount-taranaki)
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