We began today with this magnificent dawn over the Maniototo range.
It was a cool morning but we got going already at 8 a.m. with the township of Hyde as our destination.
We thoroughly enjoyed riding through a grand landscape with a wide horizon and a big sky.
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| These sheep are all very well behaved proceeding in single file across their pasture. |
The magnitude and extend of the grasslands reminded us about the prairie in N America.
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| On distant mountain tops we saw some new snow; autumn is coming! |
We did a short stop at Ranfurly. Here's the old railway station as it looks today ...
... and what it looked like in its heydays 115 years ago.
Just out of Ranfurly, we encountered this line of more-or-less dried wild boar carcasses being hung on a sheep pasture fence. – A strange way of letting the world know that you dislike the wild boars.
Farther down the trails, farmers could purchase some of the farm necessities like "tanks, killing sheds, troughs and posts".
A somewhat typical abode for a farm country family in this region.
It turned out to become a very hot day and we were happy to find this absolutely wonderful place along the Taieri river where we spent our siesta.
We continued towards Hyde ...
... and when Saturn was low is the sky ...
... we reached our last tunnel on the trail and once that was negotiated ...
... the old school in the township of Hyde appeared around a trail bend. Here we "camped" overnight.
