March 30th
The wide roadside berms out of Twizel served us well. Irrigation units create huge circles of green amongst the parched land. (Check them out on Google maps) It is as if alien spaceships have landed.
We were fortunate enough to have an apple tree roadside with huge red crisp fruit.
The road was straight and laboriously long. We were entertained somewhat by a police officer who managed to pull over at least 4 drivers in the time it took us to walk to their flashing lights. We waved our ‘ah ah argh’ finger at the ticketed drivers as they came past.
Then emergency vehicles including ambulance, police and fire brigade stormed past over the next couple of hours. It was later when at Omarama that we read the Stuff article. Tragedy, with two different local crashes. One near Hayman Rd where we had camped just the other night.
Makes you think.
Love the autumn leaves and sunset. The apples look yummy. Bronwyn xx
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