Spooks beautiful sunrise was followed by a beautiful day. This morning's sunrise was very dramatic and was followed by rain, so maybe there is truth in the saying after all. After a lot of faffing about, Spook and I finally decided to cycle to Hawea on the new track. It's 30km round trip by road, so a bit longer by the track and longer with the wrong turnings we took trying to find it. Signage is always the last part of a new track!! We wore the full lycra outfits, but shorts would probably have been fine. Despite the dull day, it wasn't cold. The problem with his and her lycra, is if the 'his' is a lythesome athlete, and the 'her' isn't, it's not such a good look. I'm hoping any bystanders assumed that I had a couple of layers of thermals underneath.....and that the suit was so tight, it was squeezing my facial cheeks up out the top. We had a great lunch in the shop/cafe - something which they do very well over here. Hawea is cheaper than Wanaka, but it's weird how eating out is relatively cheap when food shopping is so expensive.
I'm feeling a bit crook now and am a little paranoid after sitting in a car with a family of recovering Swine Flu sufferers. They had spent the holidays in Sydney and reckon they caught it on the plane home. The mother had been vaccinated against flu, so the doctor thinks it may have been swine flu.
grateful for:
the bridge on the track being opened as it was a bleeding long trip back or a serious swim over a fast, deep, glacial river.
the fact that only one healthy person (and a few unhealthy ones), has died from Swine Flu in New Zealand, so fingers crossed.
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