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Wednesday was a day of victory- I made it to Bluff! 1800km of cycling from Auckland down to here. This is pretty much the southern-most city on the South Island (not the southern-most point, but the southern-most town). Had to go 30km back north to the larger city of Invercargill on Thursday to catch a bus for Friday, but other than that I am pretty much done cycling. Need to start heading back north for my plane back to Auckland, am planning on stopping in a couple of places along the way.
Bluff pole.
Maori creation legend.
Looking down on Bluff. Did a few walks in the area, which was pretty cool because there's a small micro-climate forest right outside of town. It's actually pretty typical of New Zealand because there'll be a town, with residents and a supermarket and the whole deal, and then only 2 or 3km outside of the town is a small forest to walk and hike around in.
Dreams? Maybe. Invercargill itself is a pretty low-key town. But two exciting things happened there. One was seeing the original- not the one built for the movie- Indian motorcycle Burt Munro modified and raced to set the land speed record. It was in a hardware store; apparently Munro sold the bike to the store's owners when he could no longer ride it. It was on display and everything, definitely a neat thing to see. The other exciting part of the town was running into Becky and Alex, the British cyclists, again. They rolled into town on Wednesday, had taken a different route through the South Island than me. We spent the night catching up.
Anyone seen the World's Fastest Indian? This is it.
Some of Munro's other bikes.
Becky's bike got a flat right before they left on Friday. Only 30km to go that day to, so it was pretty bad timing.
All hail the victors. 1800km of cycling!
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