Leaving “windy “Wellington in the rush hour traffic meant a slow start to the day. Once out of the city we fuelled up and set off for Taupo some 380 km’s North. A two-hour ride without a tea stop and nothing much to look at made it one of our less interesting ones.
There were a lot of police on the road, more than we have seen on the entire trip but we managed to keep Arl S out their way. We finally stopped for lunch at, what appeared to be, a Dakota DC3 aircraft parked at the side of the road and it was! Really cool, a café was using it and it was being refurbished so we could not get on it but will be real neat when it’s finished.
As we climbed into the Rhitianga Ranges the terrain became more interesting; soon we were in the dessert and three large Volcanoes dominated the horizon, it was weird as it was most unexpected. After all we had seen in NZ a dessert was just not on the list but there it was barren, harsh and dry as a bone. It does not cover a wide area though and as fast as we were in it we were out again.
From here we wound our way to Taupo, NZ ‘s largest lake and as you can imagine it is beautiful. Tomorrow we will be exploring the area as we have a day here to go out to play, I will have lots of fun stuff to write about then, today we simply rode all day. Now we are staying in some cool villas set on a winery at a place called Huka Falls, again very nice accommodation.
There were a lot of police on the road, more than we have seen on the entire trip but we managed to keep Arl S out their way. We finally stopped for lunch at, what appeared to be, a Dakota DC3 aircraft parked at the side of the road and it was! Really cool, a café was using it and it was being refurbished so we could not get on it but will be real neat when it’s finished.
As we climbed into the Rhitianga Ranges the terrain became more interesting; soon we were in the dessert and three large Volcanoes dominated the horizon, it was weird as it was most unexpected. After all we had seen in NZ a dessert was just not on the list but there it was barren, harsh and dry as a bone. It does not cover a wide area though and as fast as we were in it we were out again.
From here we wound our way to Taupo, NZ ‘s largest lake and as you can imagine it is beautiful. Tomorrow we will be exploring the area as we have a day here to go out to play, I will have lots of fun stuff to write about then, today we simply rode all day. Now we are staying in some cool villas set on a winery at a place called Huka Falls, again very nice accommodation.
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