From Oamaru to Otematata, about 95kms or 60 miles. Our route went via the main street in Oamaru - Thames St. We called in on the art gallery and although we agreed with the sentiment that the Pacific should be nuclear free and like Greenpeace, most of the art didn't seem to require the ability to draw or produce beauty so we backed away, a touch sadder.Then we pushed off along highway 1 until we turned for the road up the Waitaki Valley. Excellent speedy cycling. We ate outside the impressively english anglican church in Duntroon. The church looks like a bit of Surrey or Kent. Then, after photographing ourselves in the stocks, we pushed along to Kurow where I shopped for tonight's meal. Then on around the back of Lake Aviemore in steady rain, viewing three dams eventually. The last one was impressively huge - then down to our campsite and village at Otematata.The hills have got steadily bigger as we've gone inland. We aren't that far from Mt Cook really so this is to be expected.Guy had an old puncture re-open while we cycled around the back of Lake Aviemore and it was pretty difficult mending a puncture in the rain. Our pre-glued patches don't seem to fix permanently in the damp. Or maybe there's other reasons but none-the-less the patches are not fixing very well. And there don't seem to be any bike shops around here.
From Oamaru to Otematata, about 95kms or 60 miles. Our route went via the main street in Oamaru - Thames St. We called in on the art gallery and although we agreed with the sentiment that the Pacific should be nuclear free and like Greenpeace, most of the art didn't seem to require the ability to draw or produce beauty so we backed away, a touch sadder.Then we pushed off along highway 1 until we turned for the road up the Waitaki Valley. Excellent speedy cycling. We ate outside the impressively english anglican church in Duntroon. The church looks like a bit of Surrey or Kent. Then, after photographing ourselves in the stocks, we pushed along to Kurow where I shopped for tonight's meal. Then on around the back of Lake Aviemore in steady rain, viewing three dams eventually. The last one was impressively huge - then down to our campsite and village at Otematata.The hills have got steadily bigger as we've gone inland. We aren't that far from Mt Cook really so this is to be expected.Guy had an old puncture re-open while we cycled around the back of Lake Aviemore and it was pretty difficult mending a puncture in the rain. Our pre-glued patches don't seem to fix permanently in the damp. Or maybe there's other reasons but none-the-less the patches are not fixing very well. And there don't seem to be any bike shops around here.