Date: 25/04/2008

Trip Leader: Bob Dickinson

Trip Report: Casey Macadam

We all got up early and went down to the camping ground just out of Haast, paid up our fees and off we all went. We went down the Jackson Bay Road with lovely big trees hanging over the road like a tunnel. We stopped to have a look at an old bridge which was left when they built the new one on top. We also went past a bull on the side of the road eating scrub. We got to a farm in the middle of no-where, on the flat area of the farm we went across the Cascade River. Went though a forest and out on the flat again to have morning tea.

Sandy made me a cake for my 15th birthday, which was a really cool surprise; everyone had some cake (Thank-you Sandy!). After morning tea we went down past a hunters hut and back into the forest again. We ended up at the Hope River – it didn’t have very much water in it, drove along a bit more and got to Barn bay for lunch. Everyone got out and had a walk around and something to eat; we were ready to head back by the time the sand-flies caught up with us. We are lucky it was a beautiful day; we agreed that it was the best weather we had ever seen for the trip. After lunch we headed back to Haast.

But just one more stop: Jackson’s bay, man, that place is so many miles away from any decent shops.

Thank you to Bob and Bill who organised the trip for us.

So that was our day down to Barn bay.