We started this morning with Croissants for Kates Birthday breakfast (thank you Katie again) and rode into Hokitika for a coffee, this is potentially my most memorial coffee ever I was knackered the massive kms from the last few days and poor sleeps catching up on me the thought of being unable to do this and not ride to Bluff hasn’t crossed my mind but I was definitely feeling it. We rode on Kate joining us along this section of the West Coast Wilderness Trail until it was time for her to turn around, we carried on through to Ross had another quick feed and back on the roads we would now mostly be on roads to Queenstown.
Not much else happened but a long day and 133kms today we got a tailwind which was exciting at one point, we rode into Franz on dark in just enough time to have a quick spa and pizzas and into bed.
Back into the saddle on what will be our second longest day so far 148kms. Man alive!!! Here we come Haast.
These towns along the coast have been hard hit with lockdowns and many places appear shut a great time to be riding these roads as they are a lot quieter than they could be but many of the Cafes aren’t open. This is big country and long stretches with very little, the South Island has been a lot of gentle low riding then up and down a big hill and then more flats where as the North Island was always up and down.
We rode up to the first viewing point to see Fox Glacier slowly moving further and further in the wrong direction, back up the mountain but we needed to get a photo for the challenge. We rode and rode seeing the sunset at Knights Point lookout and prepared here for our night run into Haast. It was dark as dark can be but the roads were very quiet I think only a milk tanker and a ute with a boat passed us here. We dodged dead possums in the middle of the road and rode into Hasst along the long long bridge but it was too dark to see what was on either side. Again we got to the camp ground and Kate had a nice hot dinner waiting for us, Chris and I both sat there kind of dazed as we refuelled for the next day. The Haast Pass….
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