Clyde and Back Country Driving 1

Today was a ton of fun. We did some back country driving. We went first to St Bathans and went a little camera crazy there. It is absolutely stunning and my great grandfather lived there for a time. Leaving there we left the seal behind and drove into a hut in the Oteake conservation area for lunch. The pics tell the story. We forded rivers about 25 or more times!! We took a different way out and stopped to look at some old and interesting fishing huts.
Back on the sealed road we came home via Oturehua, (see pics of very old fashioned shop selling just about everything) Ophir (consistently records the coldest winter temps in NZ), Alexandra and back to Clyde to Gerard and Sue's for dinner. They took us on our journey today, along with the irrepressible and delightful Henry, and we couldn't be more grateful! We could not have had better hosts.
Tomorrow we're moving on to Moke Lake near Queenstown and then further up Lake Wakatipu to the Glenorchy and Kinloch area. After that, who knows!!
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