21 Jun 2021

Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne

From Nine To Noon, 11:48 am on 21 June 2021

Kennedy talks to Kathryn about his four days on the Paparoa Track, the country's newest Great Walk. He has now cycled it and walked it - traversing from one side of the Paparoa National Park to the other.

Geographer Robin Kearns begins Paparoa Track near Blackball

Misty day on the Croesus Track, the first section of the Paparoa Track when walked from the south

Cycling the escarpment section of the Paparoa Track through the karst landscape for which Paparoa National Park is famous

Stunted beech on escarpment section of track

Cloud forest section of the Paparoa Track, from Moonlight Tops Hut to Pororari Hut

Moss-mounded stump in cloud forest

Moss-festooned beech in Paparoa cloud forest

Sunset from Pororari Hut

Waterfall on Paparoa Track

Pororari River near Punakaiki end of Paparoa Track

Sculpted limestone in Pororari River

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