Wednesday 26 August Central Otago is known for its dry climate… yeah, right! It started raining overnight and just never stopped. Messaged Ella to wish her happy birthday - magically her card had arrived which we’d only sent on Monday (bad parents!) Ania and Gareth had a few pre-departure chores to sort and Gareth also took us out on a tiki tour of local walks for the dogs before we parked up at the pine plantation dog park and took them for a wet walk out there. Mokka was ve

Tuesday 25 August After a wild & windy night, a beautiful sunrise greeted us as I opened our door at Lake Dunstan - the winds had died and the lake was almost flat, no lapping waves this morning. The bikes were down still, so we hopped on them and cycled up to the dam, down to the bridge along the Clutha River Trail (which looked quite different when we last cycled here in the autumn under golden leaves 🍁) and up the hill into Clyde for brunch at The Merchant. Louis had crea

Monday 24 August After a wonderful relaxing weekend with the Websters, Jonny was off to work early and we packed up in leisurely fashion, on a gloriously golden morning. We thanked Debs for having us, said our farewells, dragooned her into a goodbye selfie and trundled off to the Alexandra dump station, a couple of shops in town and then over to Clyde, just 12kms from our starting point! We parked up above the Clyde Dam at Burton Creek Recreation Reserve (NZMCA site# 8787), a