So there Wolf and me where walking down what I think was Ricoton road or somewhere close to it? Heading to stay with our brother Josiah. We started looking around trying to find his street number. It turned out we didn't need it as right on one of the driveways was a knocked over letterbox and next to it a massive penis drawn right onto the concert driveway, we knew it had to be his place.
Jizzy was sitting inside and heard us coming from a mile away, I guess there's only two people in the world that laugh like we do. He stepped outside to greet us and it was just like old times straight into banter and then straight into his kitchen to scheme some food.. To bad there was none of Jenny's (His mums) Home made bread.
Josiah's house was a full on man cave, complete with a little pond inside the house, on the carpet next to the front door. It wasn't hard to tell that this house had seen better days. To add to it they owned a heat pump at one stage, to bad the remote was broken!! Have you ever see that ad were people turn off the lights, tv or appliances and money poops out to reward them? Well believe it or not, but Josiah threw that heat pump remote at the wall and right there from within its shattering components pooped out $3,000 in cash money! Just how utterly amazing must it have been, and totally worth freezing throughout the entire winter.
Its sad to say a lot of our time down in Christchurch was actually spent being zombies, nerding out, playing mindcraft, which I've sworn to never play again. However when we weren't playing video games we did get out for some pretty wild nights.
Unfortunately we ended up getting really sick and mixed with those crazy nights a lot of other people must have also become really sick, oops our bad!!!
As we recovered the days ticked by and weather started to get colder.
I had just gotten over most of my cold, when we decided we best try and make it to Picton within the next 4 days, as a huge cold front was coming through and with it snow and other nasty s, if we didn't leave it would have been two weeks before another clearing. Wolf was still in a pretty run down state but we peddled on none the less.
Bike Touring NZ
Monday 14 April 2014
Monday 27 May 2013
Hokitiki to Christchurch
Day 1 Hokitiki to Lake Mahinapua
Day 2 Lake Mahinapua to Lake Mapourika outside Franz Josef
Day 3 Franz Josef to Lake Paringa
Day 4 Lake Paringa to Haast
Day 5 Haast to Pleasant flats
Day 6 Pleasant flats to Boundary creek
Day 7 Boundary creek to Wanaka
Day 8 Wanaka to Queenstown
Day 9 Queenstown to outside Lumsden
Day 10 Outside Lumsden to Invercargill
Invercargill
Day 12 Invercargill to Slope Point Catlins
Day 13 Slope Point to Outside Owaka
Day 14 Owaka to Dunedin
Dunedin
Day 14 Dunedin to Oamaru
Day 15 Oamaru to outside Ashburton
Day 16 Ashburton to Christchurch
Last meal leaving Hokitika (12 eggs a litre of milk and some chicken) |
Grass area lake Mahinapua |
More of lake Mahinapua |
Lake Mahinapua |
Day 2 Lake Mahinapua to Lake Mapourika outside Franz Josef
Otto Mac Donald Campsite, Lake Mapourika |
Snowy mountains reflecting off the beautiful Lake Mapourika |
Wolf and Kurt Lake Mapourika |
Day 3 Franz Josef to Lake Paringa
Breakfast Franz Josef |
Franz Josef Glacier from a hill we climbed |
River draining Franz Josef |
Half way down a big hill |
Kurt being Boss |
The boys keeping positive |
The day getting late at Bruce bay |
The bikes taking a rest |
Our cooker at night |
Franz Josef Car park |
Franz Josef Glacier |
Day 4 Lake Paringa to Haast
First Cereal the most important Cereal of the day! |
Knights point lookout |
We borrowed some binoculars and saw seals here |
Ship Creek |
Ship creek |
Ship creek |
Wolf at Ship Creek |
A little walking area at Ship Creek |
The boys taking a Quick Break |
Big Native tree |
Bush walk Ship Creek |
Climbing some Rata vines |
Slightly sketch Climbing the Rata vines together |
Haast Campsite/Backpackers |
Making Sushi in the Campsite Kitchen |
Day 5 Haast to Pleasant flats
Haast fighting a head wind and the rain |
Smiley Kurt |
The scenery was amazing through here |
The cold and altitude changes gave Kurt his first pouring blood nose around here. |
When the body and mind is tired you can't help but look weird |
Emergency ponchos to keep our rain jackets dry. |
Seriously though our rain jackets didn't keep the rain out without the extra layer. |
Walking to a little waterfall |
The water from here to Queenstown is the cleanest and most beautiful I've ever seen |
Pleasant Flat Campground |
Building a fire |
We struggled lighting the wet tinder with our flint stones but finally got it going |
Fire makes a cold night enjoyable, sometimes its the simple things that make you happy |
Day 6 Pleasant flats to Boundary creek
With our new cooker we got to enjoy warm porridge :) |
View of the Alps at the turn off to Pleasant flats |
Climbing through the Haast gates, a view of the Haast river |
Haast definitely left an imprint on our minds, what a stunning place |
Blurry signs not sure why this was uploaded?? |
Again?? It does look kind of cool |
Its funny this was a really steep downhill but you could never tell |
Road to Cameron flat |
Under cover at Cameron flat |
We were suppose to camp here but we still had energy left for another 40 km |
The blue pools |
Camera once again fails to capture the true Beauty |
This place plus Summer would equal an awesome time |
Kurt with puffy eyes, it only takes 500 km before one looks exhausted |
Wolf and tongue |
There were some big fish in here |
Boundary creek, our favourite Campsite |
We saw fish so headed in |
Trying our luck at fishing |
Nothing worse then seeing a fish sniff your bait and then swim off |
Overly dramatic photo, although it was cold and wet |
I know it said no fires but we were freezing and the area was extremely wet |
Day 7 Boundary creek to Wanaka
Boundary creek in the morning showing off its stunning snow caped mountains and clear waters |
Trying to act like we weren't tired |
I can't believe I lived only a few thousand km from here for 20 years without knowing |
Lake Wanaka goes on for ages, it's a nice sight |
Lake Hawea opposite Lake Wanaka |
The sun finally Breaking through |
Another one of NZ's Beauty |
A quick break to look before leaving |
Riding into Wanaka |
Day 8 Wanaka to Queenstown
Cardrona |
Kurt standing on the side of the highest sealed road in NZ |
Wolf standing on the side of the highest sealed road in NZ Add caption |
We finally tested our cardio and made it to the top without Breakfast or a rest |
A yawn was captured that morning |
Maybe we started going crazy from the altitude??? No Probably not |
So much stoke at this point |
The beasts in there prime |
The machines made it to the top. Unfortunately Wolfs front bikes were broken and my back brakes were gone, so yes our shoes lost some rubber to this mountain |
Timer photo |
Us making friends, hahah they kept a photo of us for themselves, I think that's the third time its happened. Then again who doesn't want a photo of us! |
Day 9 Queenstown to outside Lumsden
Looking at Queenstown from Frankton |
More of Frankton |
The road to Invercargill |
Leaving the Alps |
Our Campsite in these scary woods (looking in) |
Our campsite (looking out) |
Day 10 Outside Lumsden to Invercargill
Last glance at the Alps |
With the wind at our back we averaged 35 km/h Finally our large surface area working for us |
Storm clouds gathering outside of Winton |
Kurt ridding wet |
Wolf loving the rain |
Invercargill
Warm and dry at Layla's spare house |
We loved this place |
Kurt being a big kid (Touataras are one of his favourite animals) |
Hmmm not sure what's being achieved here? |
Some art inside, no photos were to be taken |
boss little tuatara |
Some Maori art |
Old Canoe |
Old Maori fish hooks |
Green stone |
Food storage container for preserving food |
We were bored so we tried to climb every tree in this huge park, we only managed 20 |
Kurt and Layla on top of a hill at bluff |
The boy's looking like foreigners |
It was super windy up there |
To cloudy to see Stuart Island |
Bluff Sign post |
Wolf and Kurt Climbing the Sign post |
It's funny if there was a road we could have already biked to the Equator |
The chain sculpture that imaginarily connects to Stuart Island |
Hahah Wolf was a little stuck |
And being his usual self |
Day 12 Invercargill to Slope Point Catlins
I'm not sure how this ended upsidedown |
Road heading to slope point the furtherest south you can go in NZ |
Our Campsite that we found |
Probably our best side of the road camping |
Two pairs of track pants, two thermals, two woollen jumpers and my jacket, and the cold was finally tamed |
Day 13 Slope Point to Outside Owaka
The Beauty of the Catlins, were the sea meets forest |
We look like a weird Amish boy band |
Purekaunui falls |
Don't ask not sure what pose this is? Our interpretation of a tired gangster maybe? |
My tyres enjoyed these gravel roads |
Yay punctured tyre |
Our next off the road campsite, again it was pretty good |
Day 14 Owaka to Dunedin
Yay another punctured tube |
Another Flatty |
Ran out of fresh tubes so puncture repairing |
Four tubes failed that day, two were fixed. The Catlins in total caused 7 tube changes in three days, to put this in perceptive, From Auckland to The Catlins caused only three |
Entering into Dunedin |
Dunedin out of focus |
Dunedin
Papanui inlet outside Dunedin |
It was windy and cold |
Signal Hill overlooking Dunedin |
Day 14 Dunedin to Oamaru
Moeraki Boulders |
Day 16 Ashburton to Christchurch
Our Campsite outside Ashbuton |
Trip map |
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