Colin Gibson
04-18-2012, 12:13 AM
A couple of weekends ago I got an E mail saying there was going to be a gathering of west Coast pilots at Karamea on the west coast of South Island New Zealand for the weekend. I had promised a friend a trip on the Sunday so decided to fly over to Karamea on Saturday for lunch and meet up with my friends.
I left Nelson at 11.30am to avoid the fog which can be in the Karamea mountains in the morning. My passenger was 25 L of fuel.
I used lift off the ridges to get up around 4000 ft to get around Mt Author and into the Leslie river valley which runs into the Karamea river at the renoun Karamea Bend (in the river)
Here is a selection of pictures of the journey.
Turned out, everyone else plnned to arrive late in the afternoon so I ended up having lunch on .my own. Went for a walk to the beach after to fill in time until around 4pm. With no one arriving I climbed out towards Nelson to the tune of pilots calling destination Karamea. They were on their way but to late for me. Passed Lloyd and Jan in ZK-RAE as I entered the gorge. We circled each other and exchanged greetings before going opposite directions. I hear they had a great time.
I left Nelson at 11.30am to avoid the fog which can be in the Karamea mountains in the morning. My passenger was 25 L of fuel.
I used lift off the ridges to get up around 4000 ft to get around Mt Author and into the Leslie river valley which runs into the Karamea river at the renoun Karamea Bend (in the river)
Here is a selection of pictures of the journey.
Turned out, everyone else plnned to arrive late in the afternoon so I ended up having lunch on .my own. Went for a walk to the beach after to fill in time until around 4pm. With no one arriving I climbed out towards Nelson to the tune of pilots calling destination Karamea. They were on their way but to late for me. Passed Lloyd and Jan in ZK-RAE as I entered the gorge. We circled each other and exchanged greetings before going opposite directions. I hear they had a great time.