Travelled: 4 kms (Total 1,742 kms) Bluff dawned a beautiful day which bode well for a calm ferry to Rakiura. Bluff’s Foreshore Road We wandered around to the Bluff Maritime Museum, which was a treasure-trove of great displays and working machinery before needing to be at the ferry terminal at 1pm. With our panniers neatly …
Travelled: 257 kms (Total 1,739 kms) With a haircut done and our newly sourced butter alternative on board (thanks to Sonia, our fellow camper in Athol) - Fix & Fog’s Everything Butter, we headed off to Manapouri. Delicious - better than butter! Taking the partially completed Lake 2 Lake trail from Te Anau, we rode …
Travelled: 207 kms Despite gasps of disbelief that we were heading down to Kingston and through the Devil’s Staircase, we set off from Arrowtown with no more than the usual sense of unease at what we might face. Our experience to-date perhaps inspiring some confidence that we could actually do this. There is so much …
JG on balance 