RIDE 2 👎

After a sandwich we set off on the trail leading to the Kapitea Reservoir. Sounded like a nice ride but we wouldn't recommend it. Started off with a bit of up hill zig zagging then a very rough rugged bone shattering surface for most of the remainder of the ride. The reservoir wasn't anything special just pretty water and interesting rock walls creating the dam. Rode about 4 km past there and decided surface wasn't improving and we had to do it all again on return so turned around. A bit disappointing as we had hoped to reach a specific point on the West Coast Wilderness Trail map. Came home after another 20km and had to use the anti flam on my poor knees. 😔 On the way home we stopped at Londonberry Rock. It was a 5 minute very pretty walk off the trail so I did it while Rog minded the bikes. The Rock was massive but unfortunately so large I couldn't photograph. It apparently floated down a melting glacier. Walking on the track to the rock I saw mining relics and mine shafts and heaps of mine tailings. (ie rock piles) Home for a shower and a drink with the neighbours. They spent many years living on their yacht in and around Malaysia and were there when the tsunami hit. So that was an interesting experience to hear about. Just off to the pub for dinner now with neighbours on the other side of us. Very sociable lot here. We're all cyclists so like to share cycling tales. Tomorrow heading to Reefton for coffee then on to next stop.もっと詳しく