The Saturday HOG evening was dry and a good party
was going until quite late. We left at 8 next morning
and stopped at Foxton Windmill, then on to Southward
Car Museum.
Whilst
in the museum we had an aircraft crash over our heads
without knowing it. We met 12 Fire engines, 12 Police
cars and one ambulance all with sirens and lights,
as we headed towards Wellington
On standby tickets we were lucky to get on the Inter-Islander
at 2 PM, to Picton a day earlier than planned in perfect
weather, with more than 80 Harley's on deck. Back
on the South Island.
We had a great ocean cruise 3.5 hrs to Picton
Once in Picton, we took a hard right turn for a very
scenic route over Havelock and Nelson with a camp
over at Ruby Bay at 9 ish PM. Next day we saw naked
people around the site, heck we'd ended up in a nudist
camp (Mapua Leisure Park). I wondered what the owner
thought when I arranged to have my video camera charged
in his office the night before.
Anyway, we decided
for a different scenery and quickly headed further
west.
Waikoropupu Springs has the clearest water on this
planet in an amazing water spring river system. Amazing
how beautifully pure that water was.
The Farewell Spit
was our end point (via Collingwood), where we had
a bite to eat at the restaurant that overlooked the
spit.
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