Waipiata

Where is Waipiata? That’s pretty much what I asked when I first heard about Waipiata.  Little did I know that I actually cycled past it when we rode the Otago Rail Trail about 8 years ago. Leaving our camping spot after spending 3 days exploring St Bathans (see my previous blog), we headed to the […]

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St Bathans

Like the miners in the 1800s, we were lured to St Bathans to discover gold.  Well actually, the history surrounding the discovery of gold to be exact. The Creation of St Bathans St Bathans began as a boomtown known as Dunstan Creek way back in 1863.  In less than a year, there were 1,000 miners […]

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Thomson Gorge Road

Thomson Gorge Road – Dunstan Mountains The day after we ‘nailed the Nevis Valley’ (click on the previous blog here), the sun was still shining so we thought we’d conquer the Thomson Gorge Road.   We decided to travel the road over the Dunstan Mountains from west to east.  This meant we joined Thomson Gorge […]

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Roxburgh

Nestled beside the magnificent Mount Benger range, the small sleepy township of Roxburgh sits in the heart of the stunning Teviot Valley in Central Otago. Some of NZ’s largest and best summer fruits can be found here.  They have been growing stone fruit here as early as the 1880s, starting off with a couple of […]

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Arrowtown

After pressing pause on our explorations of the Catlins (see our previous blog here), Arrowtown was next on our sights. When it comes to Arrowtown for us, it’s a case of ‘never say never’! The Timing was Right for Arrowtown Now, we admit that we’re not fans of the Queenstown/Arrowtown area.  It is not the […]

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