Day 14 – Waianakarua to Balclutha – 183km
What a day! We started out from a very nice country style hotel and while it was a little chilly, we reckon about 12degrees as opposed to the weathermans balmy 15degrees! The weather has been fantastic all day long and even a little tailwind in there for good measure, which was much appreciated.
There was a fair bit of climbing today and we seem to hitting some of those famous kiwi rollers again! Which, 12 days ago, were rollers although they did seem to take on the appearance of mini-mountains between 50-180km!
The scenary along the coastal road that we followed for the much of the day, Katiki, Karitane, Seacliff, Dunedin, Brighton (this is a much much nicer version of the Brighton we have back home in the UK!). The scenary after that as we headed into and through Waihola was simply stunning, back to the usual epic vistas that NZ is famous for. This also involves a fair bit of climbing and if anyone was standing at the side of the road selling a 27T cassette, I would have happily handed a small mortgage for it! Some healthy 15% grades thrown in there for good measure, they didn’t seem to show up on the route profile (mental note to self: have a closer look at the route profile!)
So here we are, just one final push of 190km tomorrow to go from Balclutha to Bluff. Looking back it seems to have gone really fast, good job we’ve all been writing blogs as we’ll have to re-read them to remind ourselves of where we’ve been! Hard to think at the moment, that we’ve already covered over 2000km in 14 days – crazy isn’t it! Im sure thats why we invented cars, but that wouldn’t have been half as much fun though :)
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