From Waitohi via Wakatū then Kawatiri

Nelson..or Wakatū..is definitely cycling friendly.

I resisted the save mart shop.....

 Going through the Buller Gorge, Pirate had the camera....it isn't an easy road to take photos on, with it's many twists and turns...but is so spectacular, with the road sometimes on a ledge above the river, a bridge that looks like a Bailey Bridge....and just a thin coating of tarmac over the wooden roadway...and going through mountains ..

The name of the river is Kawatiri, meaning fast and deep and it certainly is that.

(The town is also called that, or in English, Westport....the port on the west coast, so both are accurate!.)

I think that is the correct order...I forgot to edit all the photos in order, even just a small cropping...that then leaves them in the right order when I come to choosing them, otherwise it puts the edited ones as later photos and then they are not in the initial chronological order.

But you get the idea of how spectacular it is there!

We are having an easy day today after yesterday's long hot drive. We had wanted to stop near Nelson, but hadn't found what we needed.

As we arrived here, at Carter's Beach, you could see that for the last 20 km or so it had been raining...hot steamy roads...now today it is raining again, steady gentle straight down rain. Just what the parched earth needs here.

Like the car Rego next to ours says...

We will have a wander around town tomorrow, then an easy drive to Greymouth...at the mouth of the Grey river.

That is Māwhera in Te Reo Māori, both the river and the pā (a blockade or place of safety) were called that....Wide Spread River Mouth...which it is!

One last little interesting fact...Te Reo means The Language....and Māori means Normal.

It makes one think of Cymry....Welsh people ..or Comrades...Cymru being the land and Cymraeg the language....and Welsh being the Saxon for Foreign....