We got to bluff on Saturday 23rd of February at 3.30p.m. It has taken us 37 skating days (44days in total) to skate 2082 km (1294miles) Not bad going really.
The road from Dunedin to Bluff took us across some truly amazing places. We stayed at Warwicks farm, just Outside Clinton. It was one of my favourite days on this journey. We wrestled sheep, drove quad bikes up a mountain, rode horses, chased pigs and fed Alpacas. The next day we popped into the school in Clinton and taught the whole school how to skate before skating towards Invercargill.
The last day was a weird one. A bit of an anti-climax really. We got Bluff, took some photos of us climbing on the signpost, got a drink then went to get some blue cod and chips from the chippy.
It's only since then that we have really thought about what we have just done. We got on the front page of the Southland Times and then decided what to do next. Sheldon hitched back up to Auckland and the rest of us spent a few days in the Fjordland National Park. A day in Queenstown to look around and now we are in Wanaka. We are Staying at a friend of a friend's house. Eddie and Vicki treated us to an amazing meal last night, we got some slalom skating in, Adam has just gone for a climb with Eddie (after cycling to school with the kids and getting lost) and we are just chilling out here before driving north to climb a glacier.
The site will get a big update soon, loads more pictures to go up (I'm on a Mac at the moment and can't figure it out) and then we will be on our own separate ways. Adam and Sheldon leave on the 6th, Kari the 10th, I'm going to try to stay here for a few more weeks and Julia is here till July.
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