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| Last meal leaving Hokitika (12 eggs a litre of milk and some chicken) |
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| Grass area lake Mahinapua |
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| More of lake Mahinapua |
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| Lake Mahinapua |
Day 2 Lake Mahinapua to Lake Mapourika outside Franz Josef
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| Otto Mac Donald Campsite, Lake Mapourika |
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| Snowy mountains reflecting off the beautiful Lake Mapourika |
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| Wolf and Kurt Lake Mapourika |
Day 3 Franz Josef to Lake Paringa
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| Breakfast Franz Josef |
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| Franz Josef Glacier from a hill we climbed |
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| River draining Franz Josef |
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| Half way down a big hill |
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| Kurt being Boss |
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| The boys keeping positive |
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| The day getting late at Bruce bay |
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| The bikes taking a rest |
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| Our cooker at night |
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| Franz Josef Car park |
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| Franz Josef Glacier |
Day 4 Lake Paringa to Haast
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| First Cereal the most important Cereal of the day! |
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| Knights point lookout |
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| We borrowed some binoculars and saw seals here |
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| Ship Creek |
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| Ship creek |
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| Ship creek |
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| Wolf at Ship Creek |
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| A little walking area at Ship Creek |
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| The boys taking a Quick Break |
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| Big Native tree |
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| Bush walk Ship Creek |
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| Climbing some Rata vines |
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| Slightly sketch Climbing the Rata vines together |
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| Haast Campsite/Backpackers |
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| Making Sushi in the Campsite Kitchen |
Day 5 Haast to Pleasant flats
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| Haast fighting a head wind and the rain |
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| Smiley Kurt |
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| The scenery was amazing through here |
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| The cold and altitude changes gave Kurt his first pouring blood nose around here. |
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| When the body and mind is tired you can't help but look weird |
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| Emergency ponchos to keep our rain jackets dry. |
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| Seriously though our rain jackets didn't keep the rain out without the extra layer. |
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| Walking to a little waterfall |
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| The water from here to Queenstown is the cleanest and most beautiful I've ever seen |
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| Pleasant Flat Campground |
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| Building a fire |
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| We struggled lighting the wet tinder with our flint stones but finally got it going |
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| Fire makes a cold night enjoyable, sometimes its the simple things that make you happy |
Day 6 Pleasant flats to Boundary creek
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| With our new cooker we got to enjoy warm porridge :) |
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| View of the Alps at the turn off to Pleasant flats |
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| Climbing through the Haast gates, a view of the Haast river |
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| Haast definitely left an imprint on our minds, what a stunning place |
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| Blurry signs not sure why this was uploaded?? |
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| Again?? It does look kind of cool |
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| Its funny this was a really steep downhill but you could never tell |
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| Road to Cameron flat |
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| Under cover at Cameron flat |
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| We were suppose to camp here but we still had energy left for another 40 km |
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| The blue pools |
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| Camera once again fails to capture the true Beauty |
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| This place plus Summer would equal an awesome time |
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| Kurt with puffy eyes, it only takes 500 km before one looks exhausted |
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| Wolf and tongue |
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| There were some big fish in here |
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| Boundary creek, our favourite Campsite |
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| We saw fish so headed in |
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| Trying our luck at fishing |
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| Nothing worse then seeing a fish sniff your bait and then swim off |
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| Overly dramatic photo, although it was cold and wet |
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| I know it said no fires but we were freezing and the area was extremely wet |
Day 7 Boundary creek to Wanaka
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| Boundary creek in the morning showing off its stunning snow caped mountains and clear waters |
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| Trying to act like we weren't tired |
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| I can't believe I lived only a few thousand km from here for 20 years without knowing |
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| Lake Wanaka goes on for ages, it's a nice sight |
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| Lake Hawea opposite Lake Wanaka |
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| The sun finally Breaking through |
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| Another one of NZ's Beauty |
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| A quick break to look before leaving |
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| Riding into Wanaka |
Day 8 Wanaka to Queenstown
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| Cardrona |
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| Kurt standing on the side of the highest sealed road in NZ |
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| Wolf standing on the side of the highest sealed road in NZ Add caption |
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| We finally tested our cardio and made it to the top without Breakfast or a rest |
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| A yawn was captured that morning |
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| Maybe we started going crazy from the altitude??? No Probably not |
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| So much stoke at this point |
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| The beasts in there prime |
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| 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 |
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| Timer photo |
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| 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
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| Looking at Queenstown from Frankton |
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| More of Frankton |
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| The road to Invercargill |
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| Leaving the Alps |
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| Our Campsite in these scary woods (looking in) |
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| Our campsite (looking out) |
Day 10 Outside Lumsden to Invercargill
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| Last glance at the Alps |
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| With the wind at our back we averaged 35 km/h Finally our large surface area working for us |
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| Storm clouds gathering outside of Winton |
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| Kurt ridding wet |
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| Wolf loving the rain |
Invercargill
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| Warm and dry at Layla's spare house |
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| We loved this place |
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| Kurt being a big kid (Touataras are one of his favourite animals) |
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| Hmmm not sure what's being achieved here? |
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| Some art inside, no photos were to be taken |
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| boss little tuatara |
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| Some Maori art |
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| Old Canoe |
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| Old Maori fish hooks |
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| Green stone |
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| Food storage container for preserving food |
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| We were bored so we tried to climb every tree in this huge park, we only managed 20 |
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| Kurt and Layla on top of a hill at bluff |
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| The boy's looking like foreigners |
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| It was super windy up there |
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| To cloudy to see Stuart Island |
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| Bluff Sign post |
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| Wolf and Kurt Climbing the Sign post |
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| It's funny if there was a road we could have already biked to the Equator |
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| The chain sculpture that imaginarily connects to Stuart Island |
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| Hahah Wolf was a little stuck |
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| And being his usual self |
Day 12 Invercargill to Slope Point Catlins
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| I'm not sure how this ended upsidedown |
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| Road heading to slope point the furtherest south you can go in NZ |
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| Our Campsite that we found |
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| Probably our best side of the road camping |
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| 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
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| The Beauty of the Catlins, were the sea meets forest |
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| We look like a weird Amish boy band |
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| Purekaunui falls |
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| Don't ask not sure what pose this is? Our interpretation of a tired gangster maybe? |
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| My tyres enjoyed these gravel roads |
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| Yay punctured tyre |
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| Our next off the road campsite, again it was pretty good |
Day 14 Owaka to Dunedin
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| Yay another punctured tube |
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| Another Flatty |
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| Ran out of fresh tubes so puncture repairing |
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| 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 |
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| Entering into Dunedin |
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| Dunedin out of focus |
Dunedin
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| Papanui inlet outside Dunedin |
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| It was windy and cold |
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| Signal Hill overlooking Dunedin |
Day 14 Dunedin to Oamaru
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| Moeraki Boulders |
Day 16 Ashburton to Christchurch
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| Our Campsite outside Ashbuton |
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| Trip map |
