Great news this morning. I woke to blue skies, sort of. Rain looked highly likely but it wasn’t raining yet. I asked at the motel about the road conditions on the Hakataramea Pass road According to the motelier’s husband all rivers on the route were bridged. This contradicted what little I had read on the […]
Well, I wanted an adventure and today I got one. My plan was to do Danseys Pass into the Waitaki Valley and then the Hakataramea Valley into Tekapo. While getting petrol in Cromwell I pulled my map out and saw another track that went from Bendigo through to Omakau near St Bathans. That would link […]
I rode out of Franz Josef and headed straight to Fox Glacier. This is the spot where two Australian men were buried by falling ice two months earlier. The track up the side of the river was shut due to rock falls but a new track had been formed across the riverbed. This gave a […]
I left Lake Rotoiti around 12.30pm on Sunday after spending the morning organising and shooting Bootlegger (the winning boat) at the head of the lake. It was a double treat – got to chase Bootlegger in Michael Seresin’s Riva, before we swapped personnel and returned in the other. I left the lake heading into a […]
“Bootlegger”, a mahogany chris-craft-type boat from Auckland and owned by Greg and Leigh Roy won the Jens Hansen Trophy as overall winner of the Antique and Classic Boat Show for 2009. The boat took 5 years to build, but in that time two versions of the same design were under construction. One was the 18 […]
It’s the tenth anniversary of the Antique and Classic Boat Show. Held at Lake Rotoiti in Nelson Lakes National Park this year saw a record number of entries – 120, up from the usual 80 odd. From Pete Rainey’s initial hunch that there would be other enthuiasts interested in getting together to look at boats […]