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- 24 Oca 2017
- 🌙 9 °C
- Yükseklik: 121 m
- Yeni Zelanda West Coast Buller District Lyell Lyell Creek -41.797936, 172.04733641°47’53” S 172°2’50” E
Gün 34
The Old Ghost Road - Day 1
24 Ocak 2017, Yeni Zelanda ⋅ 🌙 9 °C
We made it! 2 days of mountain biking - 85km of singletrack - 2500m of climbing and descending. The Old Ghost Road is a trail crossing the wilderness of New Zealand's west coast. It was a massive undertaking in development, taking 9 years of labour to finally realise a century old plan for a gold miners track linking Lyell to the mouth of the Mokihinui.

For us it was also a big undertaking, setting of before 8am on the first day, packs loaded with food, sleeping gear, tools, spares and everything else we would need! An amazing day of ever changing terrain and stunning views followed, culminating in the descent to Ghost Lake - our stop for the night. Arriving in good time we enjoyed an afternoon basking in sunshine.

That evening a typical west coast front rolled in and we were bombarded with heavy rain and high winds all night and into the morning... tbc

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- 25 Oca 2017
- ☀️ 32 °C
- Yükseklik: 51 m
- Yeni Zelanda West Coast Buller District Mokihinui Mine Johnny Cake Creek -41.543919, 172.04913341°32’38” S 172°2’57” E
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The Old Ghost Road - Day 2
25 Ocak 2017, Yeni Zelanda ⋅ ☀️ 32 °C
After a sleepless night we held our nerve and waited for the weather to pass to start the big second day. Prayers were answered and in a matter of seconds the valley went from white out to clouds lifting and sun flooded through!

The second day included about 2000m of vertical descent over 55km of riding, starting with an incredible switchback descent from Ghost Lake and across to Skyline Ridge. A testing day to the end the track saved a few hair raising suspension bridge crossings, hundreds of meters above the raging Mokihinui river below, until the last few tired kilometres.

That night we both ate massive plates of Chilli Nachos with a side of fries to recover and slept like babies...

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- 26 Oca 2017
- ☁️ 0 °C
- Yükseklik: 16 m
- Yeni Zelanda West Coast Buller District Punakaiki Pororari River Gorge -42.107594, 171.33890242°6’27” S 171°20’20” E
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Rainy West Coast (Scotland or NZ?)
26 Ocak 2017, Yeni Zelanda ⋅ ☁️ 0 °C
After the Old Ghost Road we headed down the West Coast headed eventually for Franz Josef and Fox Glaciers.

The weather felt very Scottish. Had a short stop to check out the Pancake Rocks and Blowholes in Punakaiki. Some very Orkney-esk sea stacks and waves.

Camped up for the night just South of Greymouth, where to Ben's fury a very cheeky Weka managed to steal a sausage from our closed BBQ.

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- 27 Oca 2017
- ⛅ 14 °C
- Yükseklik: 1.574 m
- Yeni Zelanda Canterbury Trudge Stream -42.884479, 171.75692342°53’4” S 171°45’25” E
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Arthur's Pass
27 Ocak 2017, Yeni Zelanda ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
Upon inspecting the weather forecast we decided we'd had enough of the rain and made an excellent decision to abandon our plan of heading down the West Coast to the glaciers and Queenstown and set off across Arthur's Pass to sunny Christchurch!

What a spectacular drive with the most beautiful views. We even got our first glimpse of a Kea. But the highlight had to be the gem of a pie shop we found in Sheffield! Yummy pies and the best coffee and carrot cake I've ever tasted.

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- 28 Oca 2017 20:13
- ☀️ 16 °C
- Yükseklik: 15 m
- Yeni Zelanda Canterbury Christchurch Cathedral Square -43.531367, 172.64403143°31’53” S 172°38’39” E
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Christchurch
28 Ocak 2017, Yeni Zelanda ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
Spent the day discovering the beautiful yet slightly eerie city of Christchurch.

We visited Quake City, a fascinating and moving museum documenting the history of the 2010 and 2011 Canterbury earthquakes.

After a few hours in the museum we wandered through the city and the Botanic gardens. The city is doing an excellent job rebuilding into a wonderful cultural hub, yet some of the earthquake devastation is still clear to see, especially at the Cathedral.

All in all we both loved Christchurch and can't wait to try the newly built bike park tomorrow! 😄

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- 1 Şub 2017
- ☀️ 18 °C
- Yükseklik: 726 m
- Yeni Zelanda Canterbury Mackenzie District Lake Tekapo Scott Pond -44.003685, 170.47445744°0’13” S 170°28’28” E
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Mt. Cook & the Plains of Rohan
1 Şubat 2017, Yeni Zelanda ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
After a couple of days in the Christchurch adventure park and lots of vertical descent racked up on the bikes we headed off in search of the Southern Lakes. En route we passed Lake Tekapo with it's stunning blue waters, Lake Pukaki with awesome views over to mount cook, and stopped for lunch at the back of Twizel where shots for the Lord of the Rings 'Plains of Rohan' scenes were filmed. We arrived into Wanaka, just North of Quenstown in the evening for a couple of days exploring.

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- 2 Şub 2017
- ⛅ 33 °C
- Yükseklik: 291 m
- Yeni Zelanda Otago Queenstown-Lakes District Wanaka -44.701517, 169.12984144°42’5” S 169°7’47” E
Gün 43
Wanaka
2 Şubat 2017, Yeni Zelanda ⋅ ⛅ 33 °C
Wanaka brought us beautiful sunshine and lake views. Some down time whilst Ben's bike went to the bike doctor and we were ready to ride again at Sticky Forest in the evening. Lots of short but sweet trails to zoom down, nearly ticked them all off!

Stayed at a nice campsite by the lake with a lot of cheeky ducks for company!

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Peter Fay Looks nice
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Peter Fay (best with orange!;-))
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- 3 Şub 2017
- ☀️ 18 °C
- Yükseklik: 551 m
- Yeni Zelanda Otago Queenstown-Lakes District Cardrona The Meg Creek -44.882175, 169.00361644°52’56” S 169°0’13” E
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Cardrona
3 Şubat 2017, Yeni Zelanda ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
Today we left Wanaka and continued our journey to Queenstown. We stopped at Cardrona Mountain Resort, high above the pass between the two towns. Cardrona caters to us mountain bikers in the summerand so we spent an afternoon, and into the late evening, ripping up some awesome, fast, rocky and loose trails. The place was so awesome we will be back for another TGIF session before leaving the south!

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- 4 Şub 2017
- ☀️ 22 °C
- Yükseklik: 776 m
- Yeni Zelanda Otago Queenstown -45.02663, 168.64900245°1’36” S 168°38’56” E
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Queenstown
4 Şubat 2017, Yeni Zelanda ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
We made it! This evening we arrived in Queenstown after a couple of weeks of epic journeying. This will be our base for the next couple of weeks as we explore the south and sample all the local biking spots!

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- 8 Şub 2017
- ⛅ 26 °C
- Yükseklik: 264 m
- Yeni Zelanda Southland Southland District Milford Sound Freshwater Basin -44.67138, 167.92544744°40’17” S 167°55’32” E
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Milford Sound
8 Şubat 2017, Yeni Zelanda ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
Milford Sound, actually a Fjord carved by a glacier is an incredible sight to behold! We enjoyed a peaceful two hour evening cruise through the fjord and were blown away by the jagged mountains, blue waters and impressive waterfalls. Our skipper was even kind enough to allow us to get drenched in the spray of Stirling Falls (apparently we should wake up feeling ten years younger tomorrow!)

We sailed out to the mouth of the Tasman Sea and then back through the stunning scenery and even had a nice complimentary BBQ dinner.

The drive there and back was almost as breathtaking, making our way through Fiordland including an impressive mountain tunnel, stunning sights of the Southern Alps and lakes all around.

A truly unforgettable experience.

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