The title of this page neeeds to be read in an accending pitch........ this is a common phrase that I am sure Richard is throughly sick of by now.......oooops.......
Well we (I) could not put it off any longer and we took the plunge on Sunday. Our rough (google maps) route was a little on the long side so had to be revised. Thus we set off for a little place called Raikaia Huts. Unfortunately we did not foresee the massive expanse of blue sky so its fair to say we were heading towards being a little 'well done' by the time we got there, luckily I had the smallest tube of sunblock known to man for 'just in case' moment. We reached our campsite in good time and decided as it was right on the coast and it was soooo blinking hot we would go for a swim in the sea. Well the pacific rollers put us off that and we soon back tracked on the whole swimming idea as the river that emptied into the ocean there was from the mountains and was not the warmest.
From Raikaia we headed out on to highway 1 which is pretty busy with trucks hurtling past at 70 mph, added to the longest (and in my view narrowest) bridge in NZ at 1 mile long that day was a pretty scary day, although still blessedly, gloriously hot, sunscreen applied but still we have a tinge on pink about us. We camped at a place called Tinwald just past Ashburton, over the bridge that had a cycle track, woohoo, only it was not signposted and we missed it boohoo.... we did i get overtaken by a wee cheeky chappy who ended up following us for a while.
Tinwald was an excellent site, with a lovely lake and very good facilities, although when the geese stared honking at 6am it was not the best!! but alas we had to pack up the tent and head off down the road, this time our destination was Temuka, this was a pretty uneventful day save for having our first go on an unsealed road, this was entertaining to say the least but there were no injuries and it sealed the deal on a trailer ASAP and flat bars for Indochina and beyond!
This brings us to today,which quite frankly was blinking awful, my bum hurt, it was cold but the sun was still blazing, the hills started and my god it windy, unfortunaly for us it was a headwind which Richard go the full brunt of being at the front with me tucking in behind, although not for long as he managed to spot 1 new mini a 1 old one, so I came back with 2 old and 2 new woohoo, still in the lead (R=21 and D=27). So tonight see us in a sleepy backwater called Waimate, it was a little hilly to get here but I think it is only a warm up for Dunedin.........
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