Finding Golden Treasure on the Old Miner’s Track.
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Dramatic-looking clouds are zooming through the sky while gale-force winds are blowing across the golden terraces of Cromwell. The poppies are bent over backwards trying to survive the storm.
Driving every day past this hill shining in golden blooming flowers on my way to work I tell myself to come up here before the flowering season is over.
On the rare occasion of having a Sunday off (due to the wind of course), I hesitated for long unsure if I’d enjoy being up there in such conditions but decided I’d rather be out on the hill in miserable weather than inside my home on a sunny day.
Parking the car by the lake, I followed the river up the creek in search of a bridge but ended up crossing the water over a fallen log. Isn’t that enough of a bridge?
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Bringing back those joys of childhood memories when balancing on anything. Such experiences should be relived by anyone capable of doing so. What’s the worst that could happen? I’d slip, get wet and head back to the car.
But focusing instead on my steps and holding onto the branches I could grab rather than thinking and worrying about what could go wrong is the key to success.
For those not accusing me of lying when writing I was hiking alone but wondering how I take these shots, for this picture I placed my camera on a different fallen log and took the photograph with a remote in my hand. | Photo credit:
Anne Bonfert
Reaching the bottom of the trail I stop at the information board to read about gold mining along this track and further up in the mountains. But this trail isn’t just about mining. It is the exact spot where the 45th parallel runs through. This is the theoretical halfway point between the Equator and the South Pole.
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Halfway between the Equator and the South Pole. The 45th Parallel. | Photo credit:
Anne Bonfert
Unlike its northern counterpart, the 45th Southern Parallel passes mostly through open ocean (97%), only crossing Patagonia in South America and the South Island of New Zealand.
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