Into The Wild

This morning we set off on our 4WD adventure.  As it turned out we didn't put the ute into 4WD but the higher ground clearance was useful.  The road is shingle all the way and was built in the 1950's when the electricity pylons were built through this area to supply electricity to the Nelson and Buller  regions.  The landscape we drove through was wide tussock lands and the open tops with screes of shingle coming off them were amazing to see. In places there is a variety of plants colonising these and in other places they are still on the move as in the extra.  
The main blip is the view from Sedgemere Camp where we spent the night.  It had a 6 bunk hut so we didn't have to put up the tent.  We shared it with Patrick a visitor from Germany.  He was riding the road on his mountain bike.  From the map I found the height for the mountains in the blip is 1147 m.  It looks big country and to us it is but it's not as big as the views in the Rockies.  The horizon is closer because we are a narrow country.