The sun was shining for us to pack up our tent and
leave this well organised site, apart from the wifi which was not their fault, and
two hours later or less we were all packed up, showered and breakfasted and
left the site at just about ten am. The triathlon apparently started at 0630
and so by the the time we drove through twon most of the competitrs had
departed and it was only on the outside of town did we start the see some of
themn heading back for the next part of the event, tough these people. Pity we
did not know it was taking place as we would have trained up for a couple of
days and joined in , I don’t think so!!
The drive was very enjoyable and of course not much
traffic on the road howver we did spot on the road many old historic cars with
lots of Ford Galaxy and Mustangs and many others and they were descending on a
town called Cromwell which was really jamming. Due to time constraints we could
not stop and enjoy which was a pity but there will be other car events in the
final part of our holidays on the North Island.
We arrived in to Dunedin at 2.30 pm and went to the the
station to obtain our tickets for the train ride through the Taiere gorge which
we were due to be on tomorrow. Then some shopping at New World Supermarket and
we bought some truly large and excellent Rib eye steaks plus some supporting salads
ready for tonight. We took the road over the hills to Portobello where the camp
site which was chosen in the first place to be near Port Chalmers where our
good friends would have been arriving on there cruise which they unfortunately had
to cancel. It was then we found that although Portobello is only four miles
from Port Chalmers there is three miles of sea in between and this would have
entailed an 70 minute drive, great, however it did not matter in the end.
The site is fairly quiet and not as big as the one in
Wanaka and the facilities not as good but very acceptable and situated about 30/40
minutes outside of Dunedin on the peninsula.
We pitched the tent and got set up much quicker this
time, boy are we getting good on this, and set about having a glass of wine
then cooking the steaks which as mentioned earlier were really good.
And so to bed!!
