Forum whore
Key ora tin a cocoa!
Pick up me new (to me) wheels on Friday and part of the excitement about that is the plan to do a wee solo jaunt around the top of the SI with my camera and a good book.
I'll have 5 days which will need to include the ferry rides.
Love to hear ideas re good roads to splore down there
Toodle pip
Forum whore
Keen to have ideas too about good places to stay.
Will likely stop in Nelson and Westport for sure.
sem fiddy pilot
Tin a peaches, tin a pears....Originally Posted by Number One
Maruia Springs? Nice hot pools!
Member, sem fiddy appreciation society
Forum whore
No idea where that is John but hot pools are my FAV!!!!!
Bogeyman
Who's a luck girl then?
So, the trip, it's now? Or when the weather's a tad less... crisp?
Go soothingly on the grease mud, as there lurks the skid demon
Forum whore
After I finish my current contract until the day after I turn another year more senile
End Sept.
Bogeyman
Excellent. Springtime.After I finish my current contract until the day after I turn another year more senile
End Sept.
Don't know much about the top end, I'm from the deep south. Nice trip up the Wairau valley to St Arnaud though. Add Glenhope and Nelson for a nice day trip.
Interested in a bit of exploring up into golden Bay one day...
Go soothingly on the grease mud, as there lurks the skid demon
sem fiddy pilot
Between Springs Junction and the Lewis Pass....
Member, sem fiddy appreciation society
Bogeyman
4 degrees further south and a couple of months later...
Go soothingly on the grease mud, as there lurks the skid demon
Forum whore
Beautiful
10 chars
Forum whore
If you get a good fine day head over the Takaka hills (north of Nelson). Enjoy the twisties.
Forum whore
They were on my list for sure! As is Motueka, Hanmer and Westport. Omg I can't wait!!!!
Forum whore
Today I purchased my second edition New Zealand Motorcycle Atlasand started to plan out my route and solo trip details in more...well, detail!
Planning to depart on the morning of my birthday to return 5 days later.
I've just booked in for two nights in Hanmer springs - I have always wanted to go to this hot pool mecca in the south!I plan to spend two days getting there and one day getting back to Picton in time to catch a ferry.
Route "subject to change' is:
Day One: Ferry from Wellington to Picton then ride Picton to Collingwood
Day Two: Collingwood to Westport
Day Three & Four: Hanmer for two nights...hot pools mmmmmmmmmmmm
Day Five: Hanmer to Picton (lunch in Kaikoura to say hello to the whales) jump on the Ferry and then home
Twill be an awesome journey. I'll be packing super lite. Just spare undies and polyprops, my slippers a book and my camera....what bliss!
Feel free to let me know of any good spots along the way for pics or food or anything else of note that I should check out along my travels
For now it will be head down and bum up until HOLIDAY TIME!
Po ta toes
Sounds fun chick, make sure you keep us left at home up to date won't ya!
Hardcore Biker
If you have time when your in westport: Go and have a look up at the old Denniston coal mine, the views, history are worth the trip up the hill. If you had a day in westport I would say head up to Karmea as the road is a good mix of straights and hill's.Today I purchased my second edition New Zealand Motorcycle Atlas
Planning to depart on the morning of my birthday to return 5 days later.
I've just booked in for two nights in Hanmer springs - I have always wanted to go to this hot pool mecca in the south!
Route "subject to change' is:
Day One: Ferry from Wellington to Picton then ride Picton to Collingwood
Day Two: Collingwood to Westport
Day Three & Four: Hanmer for two nights...hot pools mmmmmmmmmmmm
Day Five: Hanmer to Picton (lunch in Kaikoura to say hello to the whales) jump on the Ferry and then home
Twill be an awesome journey. I'll be packing super lite. Just spare undies and polyprops, my slippers a book and my camera....what bliss!
Feel free to let me know of any good spots along the way for pics or food or anything else of note that I should check out along my travels
For now it will be head down and bum up until HOLIDAY TIME!
when heading for Hanmer, head south on the coast road to Greymouth,with a stop at pancake rocks on the way, then head back to Reefton and over to Hanmer Springs.
You'll go past about 2-3 seal colony's on your route if your into that sort of thing, one on the point just south of Westport (20 min walk), One out at the end of the road on the Kaikoura peninsula, and if your lucky, one at the Ohau waterfall about 20min north of kaikoura, and a ten Minute walk each way. This is baby seals playing in a fresh water pool below a waterfall See Video.
No not my vid, but saw them there in these numbers a couple of years ago during September
Paul’s Adventure riding Photo’s
Latest photo's
Paved Roads are just another example of Wasted Taxpayer Dollars
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote
Bookmarks