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6th Feb 2011 - Hot Weather, High Winds
From Fairlie Top 10 Holiday Park to Tinwald Domain Holiday Park, another day a bit over 100kms - 103kms or 64 miles. Today was a day to get us within a day's ride of Christchurch, so it wasn't expected to be particularly scenic. The day started by riding down to Geraldine, a lovely lady, sorry I mean town, with an open air swimming pool that I could not resist. The weather today is hot with a strong NW wind (seems that direction is always a scorcher). The pool (only open during the summer hols period) even has the sensible policy of keeping a substantial area for lane swimmers. Excellent - cycling is great for the legs but my chest and arms have got weedier! So a fair bit of front crawl tho' super gentle on the legs since we've got many more miles to go.From Geraldine to Arundel was tricky because of the strong headwind, tho' there's a stunning river view of the Orari River with mountains beyond, from the bridge just after Arundel. The section down to Hinds that turns off (signposted Hinds and Ashburton) just after the bridge was great today because we now had a tailwind and did the 21kms to Hinds in a half an hour. A pretty good speed on a heavy touring bike - 40 kph.Then across highway 1 and down to the Boundary Road that parallels the highway but is, almost (one bridge is gravel at the start), all tarmac. Good speed, now with a strong but weakening side wind, to Tinwald and the Super Value supermarket was still open even at 8pm. Outside a lady came up to us and vey helpfully told us the two options for camping. We chose the nearest. At the current time, 11pm, loud radio music is still pouring out of the next tent so we will either have to do a bit of discussion or crack open the earplugs....(Later...) The music stopped a bit after 11pm so we only had the increasing breeze to prevent us from sleeping.
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