Tiki Touring Around

Off for a look around the district today and our first stop was the sleepy (only in summer) little ski village of Methven where we looked through the I Site shop before carrying on to the Rakaia Gorge.   A good view of the River from the road on the way.   The river was the usual mountain fed colour, a nice shade of turquoise.

Rakaia Gorge

Down into the gorge and out on to the gravel banks of the river for more photos.

              The Car Park                     Pauline Dot and Derek on the Riverbank

We headed off again for a ride along the country roads to a little place called Staveley.    The only thing of note here was the local Cafe which Jenny & Robin had seen mentioned in a magazine as having great sausage rolls, so naturally we all had to try them as an entree to our packed lunches.   A variety of flavours from Curry to Bacon and Cheese, Original etc.  Worth a stop if you are driving past.

                             Staveley With Cafe in Background
Off down the road to the Mt Somers Conservation Park where we thought we might look at the Sharplin Waterfall.   When we got there we found that it was a 45 min hike from the car park.   We decided to have lunch instead !

Fed and Watered !

Back to Ashburton through the dry farmland where we had a look around the shops before returning to our camp.