Bain Bay Walk

					Lynne and I pack up the camera and tripod and leave the beach to a gentle climb up and over Drakes point through the huge Podocarp trees that blanket the point down to the waters edge. Huge Rimu and Miro grow here. The age of these trees never ceases to amaze me. Some of the older Rimu on Drakes point may have been growing here as seedlings over 700 years ago. Vines clinging to everything are supplejacks that have very bright red berries and thick glossy leaves.
		We drop down from the track across Drake Point and join the boardwalk again at the southern end of Bain Bay and then onto the beach. There are more Totara trees here perched on the edge of reality. Bain Bay was once a sawmill and loading site for native timber. There are relics of the old boiler and machinery on the deserted beach. Logs were towed across the lake to a sawmill on the other side and many sank littering the lakebed. Directly across the lake is Mt Te Kinga cloaked in green.
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