Tink's Travels.

Tink's Travels.

Starting at Cape Reinga at the top of NZ’s North Island, I’ll then head down Ninety Mile Beach before cutting across to the east and the magic gravel trails around Whangãrei, through Auckland, Middle Earth and on to the Waikato River Trails. 

From here I’d love to loop both Lake Rotorua and Lake Taupo but may have to cut this to just Taupo. 

After Taupo, I then head south westerly to the Forgotten World Highway and the Republic of Whangamōmona before on to the Cape Egmore lighthouse and hugging much of the coast down to Wellington. 

 

The Wellington > Picton ferry actually has a net gain of 1km north despite travelling from the North Island to the South Island. Rather than jumping straight on to the popular Sounds 2 Sounds bike packing route at Picton, I’ll take another ferry north past the Bay of Many Coves and start riding on the South Island along the Queen Charlotte Trails and through several National Parks to the west coast before heading over the Southern Alps at Arthur’s Pass. Back on some well trodden trails, I’ll pass Castle Hill, Lake Tekapo, Lake Pukaki and skirt back through the Alps to Milford Sound. From here, it’s a small double back on myself to begin heading south again down to Bluff.

 

With that being top to bottom done, I don’t stop there, and will have a mad dash north back to Akaroa and Christchurch ready for a flight to Sydney in time for Christmas!

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