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shubbe: 8 degrees C and northerly wind up at Luxmore Hut.
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shubbe: The Beginning.
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shubbe: Beginning our 8 hour hike from the Te Anau Visitor Center up to Luxmore Hut and back.
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shubbe: New Zealanders are adorable.
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shubbe: Matt trying to find the noisy bird.
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shubbe: Mountains across Lake Te Anau.
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shubbe: Lake and mountains and clouds.
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shubbe: 45 minutes to the Control Gates!
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shubbe: Matt hiking.
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shubbe: Mountains through the trees.
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shubbe: Control Gate in the distance.
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shubbe: Dinosaur bird.
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shubbe: We'd been hiking for a little less than an hour, and.. suddenly we were on the Kepler Track
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shubbe: Control Gate 1.
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shubbe: Kiwi zone!
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shubbe: Maybe a Smurf lives here.
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shubbe: Sun-dappled forest.
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shubbe: It was easy to forget, when in the forest, that there was a lake just right there.
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shubbe: We didn't see any Ents.
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shubbe: Amy communing with her moss friend.
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shubbe: Forest.. forest.. forest.. portaloo!.. forest.. forest..
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shubbe: Hairy moss!
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shubbe: River leading out to the lake.
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shubbe: So strange to be walking through a rainforest and have a sandy beach and lake just directly to your right.
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shubbe: A strange moss-covered hole.
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shubbe: Hairy moss!
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shubbe: The trees were very, very tall.
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shubbe: Crossing a stream.
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shubbe: Brod Bay.
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shubbe: 4.5 hours to Luxmore Hut.