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| The Otago Rail Trail - 8.00am, 21 April 2015 |
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| The Beginning of the Beginning |
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| We Plan to Cycle the 150km from Clyde to Middlemarch |
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| Map showing the Otago Rail Trail |
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| Leaving Clyde - The First of Many Bridges! |
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| Chatto Creek - The First of Many Coffee Breaks! |
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| Onwards and Upwards - The First of Many Climbs! Over the 150km Travelled we will Climb 400m |
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| Ophir - Historic Gold Mining Town - 2km from Omakau |
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| Omakau - Second Tea Break |
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| The End of the Beginning - Lauder - 44km from Clyde |
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| First Night's Accommodation Lauder Hotel |
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| The Stamp Box! - Rail Trail Passport Stamps |
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| The Stamp Collector! |
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| Views of Ida Valley |
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| Local Flora |
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| Pumping it! |
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| Pushing it! |
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| The First of Many Tunnels! |
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| Still Many Miles to Travel |
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| Hays Engineering is Famous for Innovative Farm Tools. Hay's Wife, Hannah, Cycled to Farms in the Area (including the Mackenzie Basin) to Market his Tools. |
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| Café at Hays Engineering |
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| Without a Doubt, the Best Café on the Trail |
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| Rhubarb Ginger and Walnut Cake - Yum! |
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| Hays Engineering Factory Registered by Heritage New Zealand |
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| Wayne's Happy Place A Must do for those with and Engineering Bent |
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| Inside Hay's Family House - Fully Restored |
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| At the Top, Just as Sir Ed said, "Well, George, we knocked the bastard off!" |
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| Second Night's Accommodation Historic Vulcan Hotel at St Bathans - 1860s |
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| St Bathans was a Irish Gold Mining Town |
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| All that Remains of the St Bathans Gold Mine |
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| High Pressure Water and Vacuum was used to Extract the Gold This Blue Lake is all that Remains |
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| Cambrian is close to the Irish Town of St Bathans Cambrian was a Welsh Gold Mining Town (Ex All Black Anton Oliver and Artist Graham Sydney Own Batches here) |
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| Inside the Old Cambrian School |
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| The meeting of the End of the Beginning and the Beginning of the End. - Half Way - |
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| Ranfury - The Largest Town on the Rail Trail Certainly Not a Metropolis |
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| Waipiata - Cheese Slices for Lunch - Life Saver. |
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| Views On the Way to Hyde |
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| Inside Prices Creek Tunnel |
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| Third Night's Accommodation Historic Otago Central Hotel |
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| Getting Ready for the Fourth Day |
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| The Beginning of the End 27km from Middlemarch |
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| Early Morning Views On the Way to Middlemarch |
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| Clyde Rail Disaster - 4 June 1943, Of the 113 passengers on board, 21 were killed and a further 47 were injured. |
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| Fog Sets In on the Last Leg |
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| Midlemarch - the Middle of Not Much |
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| The End of the End |
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| The Otago Rail Trail - 10.30am, 24 April 2015 |
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