05/5/08: 59km, climb: 645m, Slab Hutt Creek - Marble Hutt Creek DOC
06/5/08: 12km, Marble Hutt Creek - Maruia Springs
We set off east from Greymouth deciding to leave the west coast and head inland. We stayed at another DOC campiste where the only other person there was a lone spanish cyclist. It was a cold night (-6) and we woke up to a frosty morning. We took our time getting out of the tent, waiting for it to warm up a bit and cooked our first daal breakfast. We stopped in Reefton for a while. It seems to be a town where all the men have long grey beards, wear a denim waist coat and cowboy boots, although that wasn't really the reason we stopped there.
We made it to Marble Hutt after dark and it was pretty freezing again, but the thought of being so close to Maruia Hot Springs kept us warm. It was an absolutely freezing 12km cycle the next morning but it just meant the Hot Springs felt that much more deserved. There is a pretty expensive Japanese themed and run resort there and we had intended on sleeping in the campsite next to it, but the campsite turned out to be closed in winter so we treated ourselves to a room. It was worth the money because we got to wear a kimono.
being blessed with frost at Slab Hutt Creek
not the only frozen cyclists in that campsite
defrosting at Maruia Hot Springs
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Frost means it is not raining!
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