I recently spent ten days in the South Island on a fabulous cycle tour from Christchurch over to the West Coast (Punakaiki to Karamea), Abel Tasman Park, Nelson Lakes, Picton & Kaikoura with Adventure South Cycle Tours. How quickly the daily grind returns, not helped by the end of daylight
Thanks to no daylight saving and the first burst of winter weather it is now properly dark when I leave work. Tonight I passed five, yes five, cars driving in the gloom with only fog-lights/parking lights on or no head lights at all. Is it not adapting to daylight
A cycle tour from Christchurch, West Coast from Punakaiki to Karamea, Abel Tasman, Nelson Lakes, Picton & Kaikōura.
It’s blog’iversary time again. I’m actually a day late posting this as just got home from a trip. I find it hard to believe seven years have flown by since that first tentative post. To everyone, everywhere, thanks for visiting, reading and subscribing! Statistics: Maybe 2011-12 will
Away ten days, only six hundred & forty photos... UPDATE 2011-04-02: The 2011 Coast to Coast photoset, now only 609 photos after a bit of culling, is here: 2011-03 | Adventure South Coast to CoastChristchurch, West Coast from Punakaiki to Karamea, Abel Tasman, Nelson Lakes, Picton & Kaikoura with Adventure
Thinking about budgets which means AutoCAD Revit Architecture Suite (at home & work), AutoCAD Revit MEP Suite etc led me to wonder… If there was an Autodesk Suite (i.e. every stand-alone product they make) What would it cost? How much would subscription be? How big would the download be?
I had a lazy start to the day while some of the others were up before dawn to swim with dolphins. I heard "Team Canada" set out early as they were going to ride more of the last day ride than most of us. I thought about doing
A really nice Cafe Gusto breakfast (fruit muesli and two flat whites for me) filled the fuel tank for the morning ride. Clear blue skies and sun signalled another promising day. We caught a water taxi across a mirror flat sound to begin our ride near Portage. After climbing "
Today was payback for yesterdays ascent. It was mostly gradual but totalled something like 1000m. We left Top House and sped down a valley beside the Buller River. 35km of downhill/flat where it felt slow when your speed dropped below 30km/h, for the most part 40+ was easy
By the time our leisurely cafe breakfast, yummy "Mango Fruslie" & a Latte for me, was over the forecast rain was just very light drizzle. We rode from the motel down the Motueka Valley. Last time I went down this road it was in "the one litre
Zero Kilometres on the bike today as it was all walking & kayaking in the Abel Tasman National Park. It is my second visit but this time will be doing more walking & less kayaking than the last trip. It was a cool and cloudy start to the day but
Today we got to have fun while Bas did the 400+km drive from Karamea to Takaka. It was also sad as Pep (from Adventure South) left with him heading back to work at the Christchurch Office. She will be missed! Former Adventure South’er "The other Robyn"