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Although our little campervan isn't the height of luxury, we seem to sleep really well and always wake up later than planned. We hired our cycles from a nice shop in Wanaka and the young assistant was keen to tell us about his brother had gone to watch the rugby at Twickenham because one of the All Blacks lives in Wanaka and had given him free tickets, also that NZ won! Graham now wants to move to Lake Wanaka and not Noosa in Queensland. Skiing in the winter, water sports, road cycling and downhill MTB for the rest of the year. Oh and there's a micro brewery. There are some seriously nice houses in Wanaka so I would expect lots of famous people might have a home there. Anyway the bike ride around the lake and along the river was very good with some mountain biking sections thrown in made it a bit more challenging than I was expecting. I suddenly realised that I haven't ridden a bike for a month so I think I might have a few achey muscles tomorrow.
We had to have a few stops for geocaches and to stop and gawk at another Chinese wedding photo shoot. This couple had hired a professional photographer to do their shoot, it was all very pretty by the lakeside with runners and cyclists looking on !
The scenic drive from Wanaka to Haast was along lakesides and through mountain passes and we had a couple of stops to see The Blue Pools and Fantail Falls and do some geocaches.
We have know reached the west coast home of the sand flies, at least the insect repellant is being used. We haven't seen the coast, blinked and missed Haast but I don' t think it is very inspiring it's basically a stopover town .
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