The Long-White-Cloud Spectacular__NZ South Island 2012

glitch

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I have GMaps of the first 5 days, but everything is in my Hema Motorcycle Atlas.


One of yours, mate...whow....just bloody WHOWWW :lao:lao


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robbieb

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One of yours, mate...whow....just bloody WHOWWW :lao:lao


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On the ride back to Te Anau from Milford Sound. The cold start was worth it for the sunny day we had. I sent my Mum a postcard of Mitre Peak to show her kind of what it looked like for us - when she'd been in the 70s it was covered in cloud.
 

glitch

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Re: post #177 in this thread

Chanced a Youtube vid which shows the recovery of that loco in the first pic below.
It now is part of the "entrance" to the Mandeville De Havilland Aircraft Resto Workshops.


They pulled this old steamer out of a riverbed after 93years of being covered in mud.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8pLzhjJY1s







Promising, promising...


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Barely 20k’s north-west of Gore is Mandeville, home of the De Havilland Aircraft Restoration Works and Croydon Air Services.


A world-renowned facility catering for anything De Havilland...and nowadays also restoring all sorts of things, from ornate mantle-pieces to a steam-loco that was buried for decades in the silt and sand of a nearby riverbed, unknown to even exist.
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THIS is THE MAN-CAVE to beat ‘em all...PERIOD!!

This is a place where blokes drown in their own drool...
forget family, food and beer until they’re wasted ghosts and even then they don’t care....if you know what it means getting lost in a toolshop everytime you walk through the doors, you have just found the place you want to spent the rest of your life and die peacefully afterwards...40 virgins in paradise are a piss- poor excuse for what’s on offer here.
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How about a little taste??



That's the one those guys here dug out of the riverbed and restored after the locals pushed it off the tracks when the branchline closed...
Yes, this huffer-puffer is a goer!


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So is The Moth...


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post #177 this thread
 

glitch

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Wow, can you believe that this ride was a decade ago. 10 years ago today we embarked on this New Zealand Extravaganza !!

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That's was one hell of a fortnight, aye
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Glad we did all the stuff we did, the Earnslaw doesn't take bikes anymore. :-(
How good was it to have Bernards little XT on the passenger deck, just up from the piano!!

The new boat docking at Mt. Nicholas Station only takes 2-3 bikes at a time...I've also heard of a "punt" service taking bikes, no real idea from where to where, though. (rumours: Wye Creek-> Mt. Nicholas ?)
 

glitch

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Ill just leave this here.....
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pffft, boooooring :bs

Leave the boat research for later, things might change again.
But the Earnslow ride was something special, there is no real replacement for that sort of thing.

Like the De Havilland historic aircraft workshop in Mandeville (north of Gore).
None of the group will ever forget just walking into a huge restoration workshop with guys assembling star-engines, a Russian migrant hand-dengling valanced guards from sheet-alum, an old guy hand-shaping wing-spars with a banana-shaped hand-plane, a lady labouring over a huge vat of bubbling goo soaking cloth used for wing-covering.
What a place!!

Years later things were a bit more formal but still able to walk the factory/ workshops at will and having a chat with everyone.
I doubt it'll be the same nowadays though.
 
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