yesterday cycled a hilly 56 miles from kaikora to waiau, beautiful ride if hot, dipping in and out of valleys, and crossing "whales back saddle", passed mount lyford ski area, and collapsed in their cafe for a ginger beer, actually it was more like an expensive restaurant, but the lovely girl serving sent me upstairs to sit on the coach and admire the view , then i got given a bit of hare pie they did not appear to have any customers but she liked cycling! _ it really does pay to cycle alone
spent the night in waiau campsite with one other campervan, a nice spot. it used to be the workcamp in the 1950's for unemployed people who were sent to remove nassella grass an unwanted import from south America. This interloper has no nutritional value thus depleates the land value for sheep and cattle grazing , largely through the process of manual "grubbing it has now been removed.
There were to men staying there who were building a new health center. the young lad cooked a mammoth amount of bacon thus making himself bacon butties for his tea breakfast and lunch bait. The rather uncouth older man had a supply of tasty dishes in the fridge supplied by his wife she had even made him a weeks supply of lunch bait rolls - personally he did not look much of a catch so i am not sure why she bothered.
today cycled to hanmer springs have had my peddles changed as the barrings had disintegrated, been to the spa/thermal/swimming pool, and head up over the lewis pass tomorrow
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