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Monday and we’re still at the Kaiapoi NZMCA. Yesterday was a ride out to Kairaki Beach and then along the Pegasus Trail up to Woodend Reserve, 23km ride, a nice and easy flat track ride. Today being the first day of a new week was a good weather day, light cool easterly breeze but sunny’ish. So it was a bike ride from the top of Mt Pleasant Road along the top of the Port Hills to Dyers Pass Road to lunch at the Flight Of The Kiwi Restaurant. Jude and I both love this ride as it has long climbs and long down hill speedRead More →

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Wednesday 9th of September 2026… was a perfect day in Kaikoura, the weather was a cool, cloudless and sunny start to the day with a forecast to get warmer as the day went on… a perfect a day for what Jude had planned for us to do (which meant I would be doing it as well)… hike up to 1100 meters above sea level to Mount Fyffe Hut for brunch in the snow. As we viewed Mt Fyffe from Kaikoura we could see it was going to be a haul up there and looking at the profile on the map it meant walking up fromRead More →

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Today was a day we were going walk up to the Asbestos Hut which is up the Cobb Valley, however with the cold front blasting its way up the South Island it would not have been a nice tramp in and out so opted to attempt the walk tomorrow when the weather would be a lot better. Today will be an easy day with a return to the Anatoki Salmon Farm for more salmon fishing and brunch. We arrived at 1130hrs and there was no one else there so it looked like we’d be the only ones fishing. The young lady who greeted us rememberedRead More →

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Monday morning had a clear but cool start to the day but that suited us nicely as we prepared to hit the Abel Tasman Trail to Whariwharangi Bay. It starts off on the same track we used to go up to Gibbs Hill but instead of turning right after a 2km climb at the top to head up to Gibbs Hill, we turn left and descend 3km to Whariwharangi Bay Hut and Camping ground and on to the Whariwharangi Beach. As we started off on this walk it was cool but as we got into the ascent we appreciated that coolness. The backpack being loadedRead More →

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Couple of wet days to pay the debt collector back and now have another 5 days credit for more good weather. Morning coffee finished and off to the Rawhiti Cave. The carpark is in private property where the owner has allowed access via their farm. Arriving at the carpark there was only one vehicle that had just arrived at the same time. Jude and I changed into our tramping boots, put on our camelback bike packs and grabbed a walking pole and headed off into what was track shaded from the sun and made for a really a cold start. The first couple of hundredRead More →

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Opened the Moho blinds to a frosty morning and the sun shining brightly into the Moho warming her up just nicely. A cup of coffee knocked back and we’re off to walk a track I found while looking at maps that were up the Parapara Valley Road. When arriving at our destination there was no carpark that we could find and for that matter we couldn’t find where the tracks started. It wasn’t until we backtracked along the road that we spotted what appeared to be a narrow gap in the bush on the side of the road. We found a wee space on theRead More →