Patterson Creek

I am a creature of habit. Even though it was pouring with rain I still stopped at most of the waterfalls between Hanmer and Murchison. They were all running full and fast which doesn't really make the best photos but I can still never resist them.

It was interesting that the bird life told me I'd made it to this side of the main divide. As soon as I hit the bottom of the Shanendoah I passed a family of weka. Mum, dad and five babies feeding on the grass verge. And passed many more weka between there and Murchison (and didn't run any over).