Tag: Haast
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Haast Pass: Beautiful but hard
While we were having a beer in Haast, we met up with a guy we met from Auckland who is doing the actual TA ride. We’ve met increasing numbers of them as we get closer to the bottom of South Island, as they left the top of North Island about a month after us. People…
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Haast, finally….and in the sun!
We woke this morning to clear skies and thousands of sand flies visible just outside the tent. It was nice to know that they were outside! We had coffee and breakfast, said goodbye to Smokey who was on his way to fish, and then walked down to the dock. The tent was drying over a…