A person from the cabin next door decided it was fine to smoke outside their cabin, in front of the no smoking sign. We had a bit of a late start as we were trying to line up times with the opening of the local adventure hire shop (in case they had a spare derailleur cable). It turned out that they don't have any of that kind of stuff and I ended up using James' tandem-length spare.
At breakfast there was a gentleman waiting for his wife with his fancy light bike. He gave a few suggestions about different destinations.
The person at the adventure store had a go with the frayed derailleur cable, but didn't achieve much except get his fingers bloody. I wheeled the bike around the corner and looked up the exploded diagram for my brifters. The frayed part was stopping the lever from going into the highest setting, and so the end of the cable didn't reveal itself until I cut off the offending bits.
It was good to have gears again as we went up the hill. We had a quick lunch stop at a place with lots of antique furniture. It wasn't quite Burke's Pass, but at least it had cold drinks.
Here's an extremely sketchy feeling overtake:
Rolling into Tekapo at 2PM, we had time to do some laundry and organise some stargazing tour. There were clouds, some rain and then clear sky.
The supermarket has done well for itself, moving into a much bigger building.
I had spicy fish for dinner. It was super spicy and tasty, but I ordered extra rice to enjoy it as the ratio was all wrong. One of the waitresses sympathised with me saying she was half Asian herself and likes to have a lot of rice with her dishes.
Stargazing went ahead at 10:40PM. The lady at reception strongly recommended that I wear pants, so I tried appeasing her by bringing some along. It kind of reminded me of family members feeling cold and instructing me to wear extra clothes.
It was a sketchy final leg of the bus ride to Cowan Observatory. The bus driver put out the headlights due to light pollution, but that was also the bumpiest part of the ride, on gravel.
The actual stargazing was fine, but I'll probably have forgotten it all in a few days!
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| Fairlie bakehouse |
The person at the adventure store had a go with the frayed derailleur cable, but didn't achieve much except get his fingers bloody. I wheeled the bike around the corner and looked up the exploded diagram for my brifters. The frayed part was stopping the lever from going into the highest setting, and so the end of the cable didn't reveal itself until I cut off the offending bits.
It was good to have gears again as we went up the hill. We had a quick lunch stop at a place with lots of antique furniture. It wasn't quite Burke's Pass, but at least it had cold drinks.
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| with Tomatoe! |
Rolling into Tekapo at 2PM, we had time to do some laundry and organise some stargazing tour. There were clouds, some rain and then clear sky.
The supermarket has done well for itself, moving into a much bigger building.
I had spicy fish for dinner. It was super spicy and tasty, but I ordered extra rice to enjoy it as the ratio was all wrong. One of the waitresses sympathised with me saying she was half Asian herself and likes to have a lot of rice with her dishes.
Stargazing went ahead at 10:40PM. The lady at reception strongly recommended that I wear pants, so I tried appeasing her by bringing some along. It kind of reminded me of family members feeling cold and instructing me to wear extra clothes.
It was a sketchy final leg of the bus ride to Cowan Observatory. The bus driver put out the headlights due to light pollution, but that was also the bumpiest part of the ride, on gravel.
The actual stargazing was fine, but I'll probably have forgotten it all in a few days!
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