Distance: 106 kms. Ride Time: 7:38 hrs.
After a cold night, the morning was grey
and cloudy. The run of good weather I’ve
been enjoying looked to be over. After breakfast at the local bakery, I set out
towards Manapouri. The wind, though light, was in my favour, and the road
trended downwards, so I covered the short distance quickly and enjoyed
a second breakfast before embarking on the longer distance to Tuatapere.
The favourable running continued and I made
good progress until I reached Jericho Hill, where the grade suddenly pitched
upwards and slowed my progress considerably. Soon the early cloud burned away and I was
able to strip off my rain jacket for the first time in a week.
By mid-afternoon the wind had changed
direction, and I had to push hard across kilometer after kilometer of dead straight road down
a broad valley. Eventually I reached Clifden where a I paused to view the
historic suspension Bridge across the Waiau River, then pushed on to Tuatapere,
where I took a backpacker room, and after dinner at the pub and an interesting conversation with some Hump Ridge
trampers, I was asleep before dark
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| Lake Te Anau... |
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| OK Boofle, maybe you will have to help me with this... |
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| Clifden's historic suspension bridge |
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