Jan 28, 2026 Long Views, Big Trees
Today we traveled up the Te Anau-Milford Highway, 2 lane, through the most beautiful landscape on earth!!
Stopping for pictures at Eglinton Valley and Mirror Lakes, and to marvel at the huge mountains with a smattering of snow dusting the peaks.
We continued up the road and stopped at Lake Gunn to walk the nature trail through the huge moss covered beech trees. NZ beech trees are very distantly (about 40 million years ago) related to northern hemisphere beech trees. NZ beeches are evergreen, not dropping their leaves en-mass in fall.