Day 3 - Craigieburn's a cracker

 Tuesday

At Julian and Kays house we started the day with a hardy cooked breakfast which we would need to fuel us on the upcoming Craigieburn ride.

 The cars were packed up and after Madam Julie approved our seat selections and told us that we were going to have to rotate during the trip we headed towards Arthurs Pass to Flock Hill Station










             The Craigieburn ride is a spectacular 24kms of Adventure riding

It started with a solid 8km uphill ride on the Craigieburn ski-field road

Up hill is almost done

At the top, the awesome single track started, technical with shingle scree, tree roots and the odd drop off or three

Heading out across the 1st scree slope

Andrew is the expert at finding a comfy spot for a break

 More scree slopes to be traversed

 Some sections of track were pretty tricky

"Were there any accidents?" I hear you ask, well yes, yes there were a few (all boys) but one in particular was spectacular . A member of the Tourers who will remain anonymous managed, while walking on the inside of the track, to throw himself over the top of his bike and then throw his bike over himself and repeated this until he fetched up against a tree a good ten meters down slope in a rocky gully. Amazingly there was no damage to either the tree, the bike or the Wee Tiki Tourer.

A bit more uphill

Madam Julie has a slow leak, Andrew is there to lend a helping hand

Phil the Tours official mechanic is on hand for track side adjustments

High point of the ride

Sue and Jan took the walking trail and met us for lunch

Jan and Sue on their way down to meet us for lunch

Lunch stop part way up the Helicopter Hill track

Andrew and Phil took their bikes up to the lunch spot so they could ride them back down

Time for the downhill, The Luge

Pretty happy bunch after an exhilarating downhill, I didn't enjoy the down hill quite as much as I got bitten on the ankle by a wasp at the very beginning of the down hill 

Jane enjoying her new ride

Sidle 73 - great little track back to Flock Hill Station

Lots of switchbacks

Clearing the creek crossing

Some of NZs Magical Fungi

Rolling back into Flock Hill Station

Kees fools me into pumping up Julies tyre

Some great accommodation at Flock Hill

These two cottages were our accommodations for the night, there was a bit of confusion initially when Madam Julie told us there was to be sex in each cottage..a moment of stunned silent followed as the Aussies looked nervously around until someone called out   " six, she means six!"

Football? Yoga? Help getting his G-Forms on? I've no idea but it looks like fun!

View from the cottages

A bumble bee hard at work

Relaxing after a big day

Madam Julie perusing maps...might be a change to the itinerary

Sues Yoga classes

Catered for ourselves tonight with salad, roast potatoes, beans and the most wonderful smoked salmon

Kees receives the sacred Tiki for the rescue of the Tourer who tumbled off the track, Julie is presented with the crown for an incident involving the creek, nough said (what goes on tour stays on tour)

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