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Manapouri Tracks Brochure Safety Adventure Kayak & Cruise Manapouri Tracks Plan carefully for your trip. Make sure Row boat hire for crossing the Waiau your group has a capable and experienced River to the Manapouri tracks. leader who knows bushcraft and survival Double and single sea kayaks for rental Fiordland National Park skills. on Lake Manapouri. Take adequate food and clothing on Guided kayak and cruise day and Lake Manapouri your trip and allow for weather changes overnight tours to Doubtful Sound. All and possible delays. safety and paddling equipment supplied. Adventure Kayak & Cruise, Let someone know where you are Waiau St., Manapouri. going and when you expect to return. Sign Ph (03) 249 6626, Fax (03) 249 6923 an intention form at the Fiordland National Web: www.fiordlandadventure.co.nz Park Visitor Centre and use the hut books. Take care with river crossings, espe- cially after rain. If in doubt, sit it out. Know the symptoms of exposure. React quickly by finding shelter and providing warmth. Keep to the tracks. If you become lost - stop, find shelter, stay calm and wait for searchers to find you. Don't leave the area unless you are absolutely sure where you are heading. Hut Tickets Everyone staying in Department of Conservation huts must pay hut fees. With the exception of the Moturau and Back Valley huts, all huts on these tracks are standard grade, requiring one back country hut ticket per person per night. The Moturau hut on the Kepler Track requires a For further information contact: booking during the summer season, or two Fiordland National Park Visitor Centre back country hut tickets per person per Department of Conservation night in the winter. Back Valley hut is basic P.O. Box 29 grade and free of charge. Lake Front Drive, Te Anau. Hut tickets and Annual Back Country Hut Phone (03) 249 7924 Fax (03) 249 7613 Passes are available from any DOC office. Email: [email protected] Hunting and Fishing Published by: Department of Conservation A permit for hunting should be applied PO Box 743, Invercargill. for in advance of your visit. October 2004. There is good trout fishing in Lake Crown Copyright. Manapouri and its tributary streams and Lake Rakatu. Anglers need a current fishing licence. Introduction Many of the place names of the area The varied terrain around Manapouri were given by James McKerrow, a sur- creates habitat for a wide range of vegeta- veyor who in 1862 spent eight days in a tion types. Pure stands of kahikatea grow on Manapouri is the fifth largest and second flat-bottomed boat exploring the lake. pockets of swampy ground. Other deepest lake in New Zealand. It is also one The Garnock Burn area was explored podocarps - rimu, miro and matai - are of the most beautiful. It was originally called by the Murrell family who settled in common, in conjunction with kamahi and Roto-Ua (the rainy lake) and Moturau (many Manapouri in 1891. beech in lowland areas. islands) by early Maori inhabitants of the The first red deer were liberated at the Several areas of regenerating shrubland region. Manapouri can be translated as “lake base of the Monument in 1901 and from are dominated by mahoe, tree fuchsia, of the sorrowing heart”, though the name is there they have spread across Fiordland. kaikomako, kowhai and wineberry. At higher of recent origin and is also applied to one of Te Wähipounamu - Murrell’s Guest House played host to early altitudes mountain beech becomes the South West New Zealand the Mavora Lakes, which are outside of hunters, including many dignitaries. dominant tree. World Heritage Area Fiordland National Park. The track system today dates back to The bird life of the Manapouri area is rich Several tracks start on the eastern the routes used by local people hunting and varied. Bellbirds, tui, grey warblers, shores of Lake Manapouri. These are the area. As early as 1930 log cabin type fantails, tomtits and wood pigeons are very suited to day trips and easy two or three huts had been built at Hope Arm, the Snow common. Trampers may also see fernbirds, day tramps. Tracks in the Garnock Burn White Clearings and Back Valley. riflemen, brown creepers, parakeets, South West New Zealand is one catchment, to the south of the lake, can be The natural beauty of Lake Manapouri yellowheads and falcons. of the great wilderness areas of walked as a loop and have several side was threatened in the 1960s by plans to Paradise shelduck, grey duck, scaup the Southern Hemisphere. trips. All are at low altitude. significantly raise the lake level, to generate and the rare blue duck are found in the river Known to Mäori as Te There are also several more demand- Wähipounamu (the place of hydro-electric power at the West Arm and lake edge environments. Introduced ing routes suitable for experienced parties. greenstone), the South West station. However, after a campaign by mallard duck and Canada geese visit during Refer to Moirs Guide South for more New Zealand World Heritage environmentalists and a 265,000 person the winter. Introduced red deer, wild pigs, information. Topographical maps C43 - Area incorporates Aoraki/Mt. petition, the lake was granted statutory possums, hares, stoats and small rodents Cook, Westland /Tai Poutini, Manapouri and C44 - Hunter Mountains protection by the Government. The lake is are found throughout the area. Fiordland and Mount Aspiring cover the area. now controlled within natural levels. National Parks, covering 2.6 The Lower Waiau River does not have million hectares. a bridge crossing. Access to the track on World Heritage is a global Natural History concept that identifies natural the opposite side is by hired dinghy across and cultural sites of world the river, or by boat across the lake. Back Valley hut significance, places so special Several other short walks exist with During the last Ice Age about 20,000 that protecting them is of access from Lake Manapouri. These years ago, glaciers originating in central concern for all people. include Stockyard Cove, Shallow Bay and Fiordland spread out to the east across Some of the best examples of The Monument. the present sites of Lakes Te Anau and animals and plants, once found Manapouri, dumping great quantities of on the ancient supercontinent rock and gravel in long ridges. When the Gondwana, live in the World History ice melted, lakes formed behind the Heritage Area. The eastern end of Lake Manapouri ridges. Most of the islands of the lake were was a favoured food gathering area for created as the glacier wore a long, smooth Maori people. Kiwi, kakapo, weka, pi- ramp on the upstream side and plucked geons, teal, paradise shelduck, shags, rock away on the downstream side, to gulls and eels were plentiful, while cab- leave steep sided cliffs. bage trees grew along the lake edge. The Monument is a pinnacle of very Evidence of Maori occupation has hard rock which resisted weathering by the been found at most inlets, beaches and glaciers. On Mt. Titiroa (1710 m), to the islands. At the head of Circle Cove and on south of Lake Manapouri, the whitish peak one of the Holmwood Islands, eel trapping often looks like snow but it is weathered channels were dug, which are still obvious granite, which has been exposed to the today. elements for centuries. Hope Arm Hut - Snow White Track, Garnock Burn Tracks 3 hr - 3 hr 30 min (one way) Other Tracks This track can be walked as a side trip PLEASE NOTE: Tracks and Pearl Harbour return via the Circle from Hope Arm, or can be an overnight trip The Monument, 1 hr 30 min - 2 hr (return) routes are not as well maintained Track, 3 hr - 3 hr 30 min if a tent is taken for camping in the clear- Boat access is required to the start of as the Great Walks Tracks. At times The track follows the western river bank ings alongside the Garnock Burn. the track, just north of the Hope Arm hut. there may be tree falls and mud. upstream, past the lake outlet, then along Behind the Hope Arm hut the track From here it is a short, but challenging 290 Direction on the TRACK may be the lake shoreline through open bush to climbs steadily alongside a small stream to metre climb to the Monument summit. found by orange markers on trees. the forks (one hour). A signpost here a peat swamp. From here the track The track climbs steeply from the Trampers should carry cookers. indicates the right branch leading to Hope descends along the right side of the beach, through forest onto the leading ridge There are fireplaces in the huts. Arm and the left leading up the ridge on swamp for 30 minutes to the open tussock until reaching the bushline. Extreme caution the Circle Track. clearings of the upper Garnock Burn valley. is advised as there are exposed sections of The left branch of the track rises The area provides good hunting and the track with crumbling rock and narrow steadily for about one and a quarter hours pleasant tramping. The head of the valley ledges. to reach the first lookout point. Another is reached by following the river through An alternative unmarked, overland route five minutes uphill is the main lookout. open beech forest and clearings. Mt. is available from the Hope Arm hut. Please From here there are excellent views of Titiroa can be reached from the Snow refer to Moirs Guide South for details. Hope Arm, The Monument, Back Valley, White clearings (refer Moirs Guide South). Mt. Titiroa and Garnock Burn.
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