Lake Paringa

We camped at another DOC site at Lake Paringa about 45km north of Haast. Another lovely spot but we had to break the rig (take Jim off) to turn around. We also had to break out the the repel as the sandflies were big and hungry. We are really grateful the van was built in Oz as they cover every window and the door with screens. Ray went kayaking and fishing but got no bites but the pleasure was in the boating. We would have stayed longer if it had not been for the Keas. Those mad birds came in screeching at dusk and proceeded to screech and fight on and off all night. The lady in the caravan next to us got up about 3am and watched them. She said there was 1 on the prow of the kayak and the others were trying to push it off but as soon as they succeeded that one flew around to join the rest pushing off the next one, and so it went on until Ray was soooo fed up he got up at 5am and put a spot light on them. They must have thought there was a bullet coming because they took off and did not come back.

A fellow camper caught a lovely brown trout the following morning but was really there for the 'Roar" as were many other hunterrs