Thanks to my friend Paula, we remembered to stop en-route to Geraldine at the world-famous-in-New-Zealand pie shop in Fairlie.
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| Sitting waiting for our pies! |
It was great to later meet Paula and her family in the local Speights pub in Geraldine - where there was a local blokes party about to commence, including a pink-ballerina-stag. Time to leave!
Arriving at Grumpy's camp site is like going back in time to the set of a Hi-de-hi episode: the guests lounge looks like an old RAF base hut and the showers were in a concrete shed reminiscent of a horse-stable. However, there was a large array of books and - OMG! good wifi, so we busied ourselves with doing nothing for a few hours. Thankfully the laundry facilities were very modern - and also free - so I took the opportunity to do some housework whilst downloading my Archers fix.
This looks like a good place to return to - there are plenty of streams nearby to fish and some empty roads that could be good for cycling. Not sure about the poison around here - but you can be sure that it's not too far away. The Dawn chorus here was beautiful - and later lots of Tui and Morepork and Minah's to be heard from the surrounding tree-covered landscape.
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