Pam Jenkins - backpacking through Punakaiki . mid 1950’s.

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Description Pam Jenkins - backpacking through Punakaiki . mid 1950’s.Date of Photo1950’sMap^[1]ContributorKay Clausen

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Date Created12th September 2019CommentsBob Laing I also hitched NZ roads in 1966 spending about 2 months doing so. My parents were, not amused. One of the best things I ever did. Got from Steward Island to Cape Maria Van Diemen. Good old days when it was safe to hitch. Stayed largely in Youth Hostels

Trish Rennie
Surely she wasn’t lugging all that on her own?
Roger O'Regan
Trish Rennie
I reckon the person who took the photo was carrying the other pack. Pity they are not named.

Heather Newby
Roger O'Regan Pam Jenkins is her name

Dorothy Wills
Roger O'Regan exactly Pam Rennie would not have been able to carry both those big packs

Tamai Sinclair
Trish Rennie tramping and hitchhiking, backpacking is a very modern day name.

Colin J Wilson
At the “Cross Roads” near Westport
Mari Walsh
What a legend

Diane Jackson
Nice to see Reefton on a sign post(twice!).

Craig Smith
So that I reckon would be the intersection from the Buller gorge and coast road not far from westport?

Alan Beck
Craig Smith Evocative line from Peter Cape:
"There's a schooner (stagecoach) down from Murchison, I can hear it in the Gorge".

Robin Gibbens
Great photo and with the name of the lady makes it more so for family and friends

Suzanne Hall
Incredible photo an she must've been very fit too an brave!!

Kath O'Regan
I love those signposts she sits beneath. Her shoes are sturdy but not that supportive. Wonder if they thumbed a ride?

Robin Gibbens
Who belongs to the other back pack.adds to the story

Pete Lusk
Lovely photo…

Elizabeth Ann Beech
Would that be taken at the Westport Junction, given that Punakaiki is 33 miles one way and Inangahua 25 miles the other way?

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