Jan 26, 2026 Jewel in an Emerald Forest
We walked a trail along the Waiau river that flows between Lake Te Anau and Lake Manapouri, through a beech forest of huge trees shading the forest floor covered in ferns or emerald green moss.
We spotted this lone ruby red mushroom cap alongside the trail, the only one of it’s kind on our 7 mile walk!
We were dwarfed by the landscape at times!