Thursday afternoon 4 of us left Invercargill in the rain for elsewhere! according to the papers the weather forecast its always fine elsewhere! so we went to find it!
On the trailer we had our two quad bikes, stayed Thursday night at the "Roxbourgh Lodge", this used to be the quarters for the staff working on the Roxborough Dam, now converted to a very nice lodge, very nice ensuite rooms and we can recommend the restaurant facillities also.
Friday we headed for Arrowtown, hadnt realised it was festival week so lots of people about.
We parked down by the river and unloaded the bikes and headed into Macetown, Rozy and Ro had not been biking with us before so they were enjoying it all. The river was very low so not many excitingly deep river crossings, didnt even get our feet wet. enjoyed a leisurely lunch among the autumn leaves. The colours were magnificant. It is about 4 years since we have been in to Macetown, nice to see more signage up about the history of the place, but sad also to see that two of the old houses have been burnt down by careless tourists.
We came back to Arrowtown and stayed the night with friends there, Ro and I enjoyed an hours walk along the new walking track which goes right round Lake Hayes. nice to have a spa under the starry sky later in the evening. Saturday we went into Arrowtown to go to the market, ended up staying till after 2 to watch the parade which was excellent. and yes Arrowtown must be elsewhere because the weather was brilliant, blue sky, sunshine and bright autumn colours just magic! Roll on another long weekend!!
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Fun! We wanted to visit Macetown when we where there but our car wasn't quite up to it...
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