Sunday, 19 Feb. I trusted my GPS to take me along the coastline (shortest route), but it sent me inland. By the time I’d realized the error, I was too far along. So there will be about 20km of repeated road travel on Thursday. Drat. It’s probably just as well. I did some coastline driving later on, and it was really slow going.
Today was mostly just driving. I discovered a bike trail where an option is to park your car at the finish, then take a helicopter flight (with your bike) to the trailhead. I stopped at a swinging bridge (which I had planned to stop at on Thursday) which was an experience. They had a cable slide coming back that I skipped.
Impressive morning cloud formation.
Take a helicopter flight, with your bike, to the trailhead. This nation surely loves bikes and helicopters. What seaplanes are to Alaska, helicopters are to NZ.
Old mining country. Not for the timid.
Bouncy, but not scary for me. I’m afraid of falling, but not of heights. The weight of the cabling alone far exceeded the weight of the humans on it.
The caption reads “Waihopai Satellite Communications Monitoring Station, or as we call it in New Zealand ‘The Spy Base'”.
These are itty-bitty sailboats boats for children. They had a competition. Not to be forgotten is that New Zealand first took the America’s Cup away from the USA.
Is it a photo of a picture? No.
Cool idea.
Excellent idea for the frame for photos and what can I say about the swinging bridge (wow).