What did you do this weekend?

Time for another what I did this weekend thread ... Headed up the Makarora to Makarora hut with grand plans and poor forecast on Friday evening. Saturday: woke to torrential rain. Sat and watched the rain until midday. Sat and watched the flooded river for most of the afternoon. Plans of a monster mission into the Hunter and back to the Cameron silently abandoned. Then suddenly between 4pm and 5pm the river decides to drop. 5 hours of daylight left - enough for a mission to Brewster. Clag on the tops and presumably sodden snow on Mt Kaye, so it seems a good opportunity to try out the 'low route' - which turns out good. A great open beech spur starting 100m up the sidecreek 2km below Makarora hut: climbs 1200m to hit ridgeline south of Mt Kaye opposite Hawk Spur. Beech changes to rolling tussock basins & numerous tarns and campspots. From the ridgeline an easy sidle with good flat terraces at 1700m on the west face of Kaye to Portent Spur. Then the proverbial custard. With the hut clearly visible 700m away and less than an hour of daylight left: a series of bluffs make the descent into Fantail Creek look unlikely. It takes four attempts to find a way down - on the true left of the southern fork of Fantail. A very tired slog up the couple of hundred meters to the hut - bang on 9:30pm. A couple of people in residence. They play dice & talk till 2am - which would have been really annoying except that the thunder is making the hut shake on its piles every minute or so meaning sleep isn't really an option. An amazing light show - just inconveniently timed. Would have been fun in the test! Sunday: Back down the scoured out Brewster track to the road as rain recommences; a quick walk along the highway and bridle track to the van at Davis Flat. Arrive at Makarora Wilderness Lodge at 10.01am to be told that the kitchen is only open until 10am, and that no they can't make an exception just because I stop there for a feed after every tramp.