Island Saddle

Confession Time: I walked the last 2-300 metres up Island Saddle. At 1,347m it is the highly publicly accesible road in New Zealand, and I found the bike losing traction in the heavy gravel. A lot of my effort was going into spinning the rear tyre, so I gave up and pushed it.

CYCLE TOUR - RIDING THE RAINBOW

February 18th 2010
It was a purple kind of dawn. The peaks stood out so sharply in the early light they looked as though they had been chiseled from the skyline. The valley was still in darkness, but as my first brew of the morning came to the boil, a hawk (or more properly an Australasian harrier) was trying to make breakfast out of a skylark and then a magpie. But the hawk’s usual aerial grace was missing. It wa ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Saint Arnaud

The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. In that same year... ... read more

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