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We spent our last day in Omau driving up the coast to Mokihinui as the weather was inclement the ocean was fair pumping leaving “white snow”everywhere it was quite surreal! We experienced an unreal thunder storm overnight banging and crashing reverberating round the hills and boy did it rain! Typical West Coast down pour. Driving south to Hokitika was a picturesque as it always is on the coast the Tasman thumping in on the coastline and a very big swell. Arriving at Hokitika late afternoon staying at the NZMCA park. Enjoy a leisurely evening. Tuesday 15th July Today we are riding from Hokitika to HurunuiRead More →

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Well its been a while since we have posted… sooo much has happened… my mum passed away one year after my dad passed away so some upsetting hard times. With mum and dad passing away and being unable to attend my dads funeral because of government overeach it was good to be with ALL my brothers and sisters after so many years.. its the sad thing about the loss of loved ones, I wish we could have reunions without it taking a death of one of us for family to be all together. After getting back from Canberra, Jude and I did spend a bitRead More →

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VIDEO: Dr Guy Hatchard is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior manager at Genetic ID, a global food safety testing and certification laboratory. His published work uses the statistical methods of the physical sciences to analyse social data.He has lectured and advised governments in countries around the world on health and education initiatives. His book Your DNA Diet examines the role of genetic information in nutrition and investigates safety issuesRead More →

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We awoke to a good frost and fog! Finally at 11am it cleared. Then off on our first bike ride after a long spell off our bikes. Starting at Burtons Creek where we spent the night, our mission was to find the coffee boat! We’d been looking forward to riding this new track and had heard a lot of good comments. After the rubbish weather we have had over the past couple of weeks, it was a good day for riding this track. The track is well groomed and makes its way along the edge of the lake, initially with easy undulations before climbing upRead More →

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Leaving Trevelyans we head back to Gisborne to spend a few days with Harry and Tui,😊 It was also a chance to get vehicles serviced, COF done and of course some biking and walking before embarking on a much anticipated exploration of the east coast up to East Cape. The weather was quite settled and we were hopeful of heading away, Nek Minute the heavens opened the flood gates lol it absolutely bucketed, looking at the long range forecast which was not for settled days we go to Plan B, forgo our eastern tiki tour and decide to head back inland to Rotorua. We leaveRead More →

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The dawns warm and breezy but cloudy, today we go up to Lake Coleridge, sealed road to the village, makes a change from the gravel road and dust. The village is on the banks of the Rakaia River alongside the historic Lake Coleridge Power station, 165m below Lake Coleridge. It was built between 1911-1914. The village is surrounded by mature trees, an arboretum created by Harry Hart, the first tree planted in 1933, with more than 200 plant and tree specimens. We wander through to the cemetry amongst the old man pines once again history is told in the headstones. We leave the village andRead More →