Te Araroa: stealth campsite

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Blissful Hiker takes a chance stealth camping at a lookout and shares spectacular views with one cheeky weka.     

In this episode:

1. Blissful leaves Wellington and the North Island behind on the Te Araroa when she takes the ferry across the Cook Strait to Picton and then a mail boat to the Queen Charlotte Track at Ship Cove. 
2. She moves fast to Camp Madsen, harvesting mussels on the beach and awakened by the loud screeching of a weka, a "faux-kiwi."
3. It's an easy track with views of turquoise inlets, the mountains seemingly growing out of the ocean and the bush as wild as it must have been with Captain Cook arrived in the 18th century.  
4. Not wanting to camp where a DOC worker is repairing a shelter with heavy metal cranking or walk all the way down to the beach and pay a hefty fee, Blissful ends up at Onahau Lookout with a 360-degree view of Marlborough Sound. 

MUSIC: MUSIC: Poema del Pastor Coya by Angel Lasala  as played by Alison Young, flute and Vicki Seldon, piano

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