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JETNZ: Stile by the carpark. The track is well poled.
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JETNZ: The Monument and Monument Hut
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JETNZ: Once part of the YHA 'farm hostel' network. It played a very small part.
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JETNZ: Short sleeping platforms with sacking mattresses full of straw! Pretty basic.
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JETNZ: Monument Hut
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JETNZ: Heading up the farm track. First views of Port Levy.
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JETNZ: Monument Hut and the road just visible on the left.
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JETNZ: The closer we get the more obvious it became that this rock would not be an easy climb!
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JETNZ: View down to Purau and Lyttelton Harbour
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JETNZ: Looking back to the distinctive Monument and Purau
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JETNZ: Port Levy and The Monument
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JETNZ: At point 913m which hosts a radio transmitter
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JETNZ: West to Mt Herbert. Not on our list to visit today...
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JETNZ: Continuing east towards Port Levy Saddle. Hilltop can just be made out in the distance.
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JETNZ: Kaituna Valley and the southern side of the Monument Track. We came up this way last July...
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JETNZ: Port Levy Saddle. And a bit of interesting farmer art.
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JETNZ: The Summit Walkway continues. But we turn NNW at this point.
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JETNZ: Looking down into the head of Port Levy valley. Was the flat patch an early totora logging platform perhaps?
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JETNZ: Kay following the poles...
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JETNZ: The Monument Track skirting around the hillside. It's a pretty overgrown track and unrideable on a MTB.
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JETNZ: This totora remnant was too interesting to walk past. We had a little look...
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JETNZ: Inside the totora remnant. The understorey is pretty well ruined by cattle who roam freely in here.
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JETNZ: What made the totora grow like this?
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JETNZ: Back up to the ridge to join the north side of the Monument Track.
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JETNZ: Lyttelton Harbour and hazy Pegasus Bay
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JETNZ: Mt Herbert (right)
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JETNZ: We were fascinated by The Monument's very distinctive shape!
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JETNZ: The track zigzags down towards the Purau Saddle carpark
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JETNZ: The Monument is a lava dome. There is evidence of fresh rock fall since the quakes but it's held together remarkably well.
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JETNZ: Kay taking a couple of sheep for a walk...