Garvie Mountains

I found many specimens of Stethaspis pulcher but no live beetles


Camp for the night just as I got whited out by cloud.


Tussock weevil


A white out at Titan Rocks.


I found a family of south island pied oyster catchers next to a small pond in the tussock.


The cloud dropped and sat over the Waikaia all day


Some low cloud sweeping through


Low cloud covers the valley


An interesting alpine prickly plant.


Neat view


One of the many high country streams in the tussock


Another interesting alpine plant


An almost perfect dead jewel chafer specimen at Titan Rocks

21 December 2010

I managed to get back into the Garvie mountains for a couple of days in search of the jewel chafer Stethaspis pulcher. I camped at Titan Rocks and made it most of the way through the tussock highland to Blue Lake.