The next day we rode from Gisborne to Kawerua around the East Cape, our main target for the trip. The East Cape of NZ is one of our iconic rides, if any of you ever manage to come to NZ, you should try and ride this route
See this link -
https://goo.gl/maps/Pnyx8QWETZk With a clear night the day started out cool but cloudless. We had lots of views like this
Tologa Bay was our first stop. I had never walked the length of this old wharf before, an iconic piece of NZ history (no long used but remains as a tourist attraction)
Not long before our trip there had been a huge winter storm in the region. The area is well known for its pine forest plantations and logging. The storm was a lot of forest detritus left over from logging down the rivers and these ended up on the local beaches. There is now a lot of effort going into removing the rubbish
It is a long walk out and back
More views
Nice cafes on the way (named after the road number, route 35)
Eventually we got to near the most eastern point of NZ
I needed to take a rest and broke out my camp chair
In this remote part of the country horses roam free to graze
Having reached the most eastern point we turn our bikes north headed up the coast.
This white church is in the middle of no where and stands all alone, a stark silhouette against the rugged coast line
Every time I ride past it I stop and take a picture of my bike in front of the gate. This is now the fourth different bike picture in front of this church
Further up the coast, it is 380 km of twisty roads
great ! Thank you very much David
nice to discover your part of world
Beautiful!
Thanks for sharing.
A couple of years ago a few Norwegian bikers put their bikes on a ferry to Australia.
Not so very expensive, but the Australian customs people made lots of trouble for them - not only with the papers
So I'm sure it will only be a dream...
Nice that you keep our colors up down there
Nice that you keep our colors up down there
Those two stickers, Finland and Russia, create more conversations with people than the rest of the other country stickers put together.
EE can be an enigma for some of them down under ...
The Southern coastline of the North Island east of Wellington (Wairarapa region). From a ride I did yesterday.
Who says AT is too heavy for off road ?
Who says AT is too heavy for off road ?
Crazy I was going to link the same video just saw it on youtube, this guy has balls the size of the front Wheel !!!