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- Top of Track
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- Beginning of track
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- Dracophyllum muscoides
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- Hectorelly caespitosa
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- Ranunculus gracilipes
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- Scleranthus uniflorus
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- Celmesia haastii var. tomentosa
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- Umbillcaria lichen and cushion plant
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- Tarn area
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- Vegetation at the top
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- Landscapes at the top
At long last I finally got to experience the Rock and Pillar range in South Otago, NZ
It was one of the botanical places of interest I had wanted to visit for some time in New Zealand. I had joined the Botanical Society of Otago just in time to be a part of their field trip to this area and lucky for me they had gotten permission to use the 4-wheel drive road up to the top of the range. This saved me having to do the 3 and half hour walk to ascend the mountain to the alpine area, my main area of interest. It is not a road for the faint hearted but once at the top of the range it was worth the ride up the windy, narrow, steep…what they called a road.