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Team Kiwi heads home.

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Another great day for a ride,  Riding in glorious sunshine The Queen Charlotte Track is quiet in the early morning. We ride through Reader country, Havelock Through the Pelorus valley to the Foresters Cafe at the Rai To Nelson for our obligatory stop at the Suter Gallery, a gem of a gallery with a great cafe. South to Murchison and  Beeches Cafe, another of our favourites  Through the Lewis Pass.  The majesty of the scenery in the Southern Alps always blows us away. So does the extent of the road works ‘They’ mightn’t be fixing your favourite piece of road but  ‘They’ are busy  everywhere else.  Foresters are busy milling pine forests in the Rai, Golden Downs, and lots of other places, There is a mountain of logs at Shakespeare Bay in Picton  Dwarfing the huge cruise liner Celebrity Solstice berthed there All is quiet in Hanmer It’s almost as if everywhere is on ‘pause’ Waiting for the holiday influx. Next morning we choose the inland southern sce...