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The weather cleared once we were over the mountains from Taupo, so again we had some stunning views around the area. We were now in the Tongariro National Park, next to the Ruapeho Mountain, which has New Zealands biggest Ski resort. Unfortunately low cloud covered our view of the mountain. We made our way to the Carrot capital of New Zealand, …
Tongariro Alpine Crossing
Finally we are back on the north island of New Zealand. We took a semi-bumpy ferry across the straight at 6:00 AM with Gale Force winds in the morning. When we got to the ferry terminal, Omega, our rental car company, forgot to pick us up, so we spent almost two hours trying to find the phone number to the business so we could chew them out for …
La route des volcans!
... nous lançons pour une petite dizaine de kilomètres de bonne grimpette.
Bon 10kms, c'est pas forcément beaucoup. Mais nous nous rendons vraiment compte dans ces moments là que faire du vélo avec 20 kg de bagages derrière les fesses est quelque chose de véritablement différent. Il faut effectivement revoir toute sa façon de pédaler, de gérer son effort, ses pauses... Mais on commence à avoir l'habitude!
Nous slalomons entre les opossums ...
Mountains, Gandalf, Mountains!
... Our task throughout the week was to make her four raised gardens for vegetables, dig trenches for potatoes, mow the lawn and mulch her orchard so that the grass there would die back. This was all pretty manageable work, even though her 'soil' was a kind of damp volcanic ash that was an awful lot like clay- I have certainly learnt the benefits of good soil and worms since arriving in New Zealand!
On Monday, which also happened to be ...
Sunset over Mount Doom
... had been volcanic activity in the area recently so the route has been closed until further notice! Typical! So we leave the centre armed with a map and head out of Ohakune and up the towards the Whakapapa ski fields. There were some great views from this vantage point as we wind our way up Mount Ruapehu along with dozens of other cars which are taking people up to the top to take advantage of the fresh powder above. We stop just before the snow-line and set off on our first walk of the ...
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