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Wide Angle Lens - opinions please

Started Mar 14, 2019 | Discussions thread
jm10 Veteran Member • Posts: 3,715
Re: Wide Angle Lens - opinions please

PeterFXCassidy wrote:

jm10 wrote:

End of March. Looks like the weather reports can be of some value only about 2 or 3 days ahead; if longer - it is pure guessing...Also Auckland weather appears to be quite different from the west coast of the South island...

Prepare for rain. God, I remember tramping and camping out that way years and years ago, rained for 11 days. My feet were rotting so finally gave up the outdoors for a bunk at a quonset hut run at an RV park that was filled with campers who were similarly soaked to the bone. The smell of thoroughly soaked flesh and charred clothes and scorched vulcanized cloth (people were holding their soaked clothes and tent flies over a cast iron wood stove) haunts me to this day. Still, it was a glory to be dry, indoors and puttering about in a clean dry lava lava.

Thanks for the warning Peter! I think I am mentally prepared - always planning for the worst case. Physically - not sure. But not exactly planning to rough it the way you did...

I will also make it a point not to show your post to my better half who is going with me on this trip

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