Today was a day as full as it can get. I woke up at 8:30am and had a good breakfast. Yesterday I bought too much stuff again at Pack n’ Save (New Zealand supermarket) so I have a lot of things that gives energy, hopefully!
I started at 11am direction Tutukaka, a village situated along the coastline. Here you can see a house almost dipping its toes into the water. I see a lot of houses set up this way, very impressive. Note though, half of them are for sale.
Short break here. Each day is a little bit harder than the previous one. I’ll eat a snack and will keep going soon 🙂
At first I planned to stop at Tutukaka but I’ve cycled only 30km so far. It was 1pm and not much to visit around except visiting the marina so I pushed a bit further.
I just arrived in Matapouri. I left the main road for the beach and I ended up here, a wonderful bay! An old couple are walking towards me. I asked them if there is more people in summer and there answer was: “no, it is always quiet like this here”.
Wow, private beach for like 50 houses here. Even if they all go out at the same time they would have a lot of space for themselves.
Before continuing onto the road I was I came from I asked to 2 kiwis if I could use the path along the coast that goes directly to Whananaki but they said that will not be possible on push bike. Ok, in that case, I will have to to a big 25km loop while that path is something like 9km.
On top of that, I see on the map that Whananaki is separated by the ocean but there is a type of human made plateforme or bridge that was constructed but I don’t have real proof of that. If I cannot use that “bridge” I will have to cycle around a second loop which would extend my trip by a lot. And above that, I will have to climb the same hill twice, rah!
Climbing, climbing...
Let’s try anyway. The first 25km loop was not easy. I ended up on foot, pushing the bike. The top of that hill reached 200m, I was done…
Finally I arrived at the junction with Hailes road and from there I had to hope that the “bridge” connecting Whananaki was something I could use or I I had to make another loop around. The short road was a gravel road while the longest one was sealed. I chose the shortest. Let’s see!
More uphill...
After 12km on the gravel road, I was relieved to see that this is indeed a bridge. And the view, again, is pretty great.
I had to separate the trailer from the bike because it was slightly too wide. Once the bike trailer and myself reached the other side I found out that there was a campsite right in front of me. Actually it is the sport’s field of the school. There is no shower, no kitchen, just toilets but for $8 per night that’s a good deal. I even ended up paying $5 because I did not have the change. The guy is very nice: “Ok no problem, $5 is fine”. Oook, cool, I’m happy too then 🙂
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Eh bien Damien, tu nous raconte ça comme un livre d’aventures. Evite de t’arrêter en plein milieu d’une action parce que nous attendons la suite comme un feuilleton.
Je suis ravie de voir que ça va mieux et je pense que le temps est pour beaucoup dans cette amélioration. Nous avions regardé la météo de la semaine sur l’Iphone de Sonia. Profite bien, ça se gâte en fin de semaine.
C’est pour quand les prunes ?
Maman
Hello, oui c’est sur que le soleil fait vraiment du bien et j’ai vu aussi que ca allait ce gâter dans 3 jours. Mais bon, je suis sur place maintenant pour minimum 2 semaines.
Les prunes c’est pour bientot!:-)
Coucou Damdamdamdam… :-),
Les photos dans ce page sont très très jolie..:D impressionnante!!! la maison au bord de la plage tranquille et la pont si long adorable et du soleil, la mer…et toi, qu’est ce que tu fais, la position crevette sur la banquette!! tu parais trop crevée… mais ça me fait penser que tu as roulé bcp et tu fatiguais bcp et après un peu du vin et tu t’est reveillé sur cette banqué(:P ?!)Est ce que ce la place pour camping? si c’est oui,tu as de la chance..bcp (la place est très prés de la mer) !!:D c’était ton départ ou tu juste venais d’arriver au camping de façon crevette comme ça :DD ? Tout les photos ici sont très jolieee…