After a stormy night we woke up to blue sky! After a great breakfast of Oates and honey and hot coffee we set out for our second day on the trail. My hips were bruised from the pressure of my 40lb pack, but after about 3min on the trail you do forget about the discomfort. We followed the lake most of the day, lots of ups and downs. We saw this big bird on a branch. It had a white chest and dark blue feathers. It was really pretty. The picture does not show the colors very well, but we were excited to see some wild life! The day seemed really long. The views were ok, but nothing we did not see the first day. We came to a side hike to Korokoro falls about 30 min. We took the trail, but took our packs off and hid them in the trees. We ran most of the trail, until I tripped on a root and flew superman style to the ground. Paul decided we could slow up since we (I) was really tired and not picking up my feet. I was glad we did not take our packs when we came to a river crossing that had wet rocks and a wire cable to hang onto. Soon after the river crossing we came to the falls. It was pretty, but coming from Oregon we have seen our fair share of waterfalls. So after a quick picture we ran back (much more carefully) to our packs.
Right when we put our packs back on it started to rain! Ugh, we were so close the hut, we decided to put our pack rain covers on but not our rain gear. It just sprinkled, but we had to walk through some marsh, so our feet got very soggy. About 40 min later we saw our hut!
The hut looked more like a lodge! It was very nice, and we had it all to ourselves! Score! After getting out of our wet clothes, and the wood fire blazing we had a great evening playing our reception play list on Itunes and dancing around the cabin (I guess I was the only one dancing) but I think the dancing helped loosen my sore muscles! The evening was so beautiful once the rain stopped. We slept very well.
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