This time the forecast held true. Mostly, that is. We got to ride back the lovely gravel road from far north of the Coromandel in sunshine, that was true. The predicted temperature was slightly off, though: instead of the promised +2 degrees, the frost on our tent and bike indicated it was more towards -2.

We took our time going back, taking ample of photos missed yesterday due to rain or the setting sun. I got my mandatory fording action shot 🙂 Speaking of fords: two local Kiwi bikers on V-Stroms were mighty impressed with my report of “nah, they were not deep, maybe 20 cm” …

The last breather for sanity was once again the Driving Creek Cafe. This time fully in sunshine, no ifs or buts. They even had the fire going … ahhh.

The rest of the day was taken up by a 200 km push to get north past Auckland and a lot of weird people along the way and on the campground. Does Auckland attract crazy?