Chris wrote: Thanks for posting Davo - looks like the conditions were even better than when we were there 4 days earlier, and only saw 3 other people. As you were there on Sunday, I'm curious about how many others you saw?
Chris, we have spent a reasonable amount of time up there during the Fagus season and we never go on weekends. In actual fact we usually never walk anywhere on weekends.
Well the wife had never been to Twisted Lakes and the day was just too good to pass up so we made a rush decision to go.
When we got to the boom gate we could not proceed, the lights were flashing and there was cars lined up waiting to get through.
So it looked like our only alternative was to catch the shuttle, having never used the shuttle I went into the Interpretaion Centre to see if we could catch the next one through and there was a sign saying we had to catch the shuttle back at the visitor centre (found later to be incorrect). To cut it short, with all the mucking around we lost an hour on the way in and we had to be back at the Dove Lake pickup point by 4.30 at the latest to catch the last shuttle back to the visitor centre so it altered our days planning somewhat.
In answer to your question, lots, I'm guessing at around 30 outside of the Dove lake area.
Something which really surprised me was there was about 13 people go over Hansons Peak just while we were at Twisted Lakes and that is incredible to us as normally we can spend days walking around up there and hardly ever see a soul.
The other bit that surprised me , those 13 that went over the peak were in about 4 or 5 groups and the Register at the Lake only showed us and one other party going to that area.
An eye opener as to the huge difference between week days and weekends, so it's back to week days only for us
Posted: Mon 20 May, 2013 9:43 am
