Left at just gone 9am after a chat to the owners, It seemss the campsite was built by the government to house forestry workers back when they were strip felling the area. It now makes a great campsite. We cycled therough the small township and headed for the coast, the wind was in our face however we were hoping that would change when we turned along the sea front. The coastal road undulated as they all seem to do, we stopped in a cafe as usual and they guy behind the counter told us all about Orepuki. It turns out the place was a gold mining boom town and his family had farmed here for generations. Now it was a very quiet agricultural village, the caafe is also the pub.
As we continued the road moved in the right direction for the wind to be right behind us and we flew along. Lunch was eaten in the tourist informationin Riverton where they even made us a cup of coffee free of charge! I guess they must of felt sorry for us cycling in the almost gale force wind, little did they know we were loving it. As we headed on again we averaged 30kph up until we made the final turn into invercatgill.
We stopped at Macdonalds to use the net to see if Marias friends had made contact and fill our faces. The internet wasn't working so we went to find the world's fastest indian. We found it in E Hayes hardware which has tens of old motorcycles from Ariels to Honda and Yamaha race bikes. The Indian was great and although the stream liner was a copy it was still awsome. Burt Munro also built a Velocette wich sat in the case next to the Indian.
We headed to Anastacia's house and met Gary her boyfirend an Tia the boxer pup. Lovely people and pup. We went to a Turkish resturant for dinner and tomorrow we are going to look around Invercargill.
Velocette
Worlds Fastest Indian
October 27th Invercargill
Got a few jobs done but went to the Museum (more Indian stuff amongst over stuff) and had a look at the Tuataras. They look like lizards but live for a very long time, Henry is believed to be over 150 years old. They are from a reptile family 250 million years old and have only survived in New Zealand.
From there we went and found a book on cycling Oz to plan the route to Brisbane and last but definitely not least we wnt to the velodrome.
If I lived near one of these things I would take it up for sure. A team were in training so we watched them fly round with the little moped setting the pace. I really waant a go. Outside was a clock counting down to the olympics, I hope nthey had better luck with the tickets than we did.
Pizza for dinner then a bit of computer work to plan the route for the rest of NZ. Back on the roadd in the morning. Had a really nice stay here.
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