I wake up later than usual and walk the town before anything opens. There's a lot here for a 500 person metropolis.
I am feeling unwell and hope breakfast will fix me. I am officially in the gaining back the weight stage of the trip.
The E-Bike hire website recommends 3 rides. I start with the shortest, Observation Rock (or maybe it's Observation Rock Viewpoint, I'm not sure).
It's raining lightly and I wouldn't normally be concerned, but I'm going to be in these bike clothes all day. I return to town and see that the pub also serves breakfast. I debate alternatives to bicycling in the rain like: sitting in the pub all day, visiting
the museum, learning how to carve
greenstone.
I hear tui and finally see a couple. I try to photograph them, but they keep jumping to where I'm not. Here is my best effort.
For ride number 3, I pass sandy beach after sandy beach.
At the end is a piece of public art. Something about Stewart Island being the anchor when the North Island was pulled out of the water. I may have gotten that wrong.
I ride back to town in need of lunch. So many places are closed on Mondays that I'll have to repeat restaurants. I go to the mini-market and buy a pie.
It starts to rain harder so I eat it under their awning. I have an hour to kill in the rain so I return to cafe #1.
The ferry ride back to Bluff is in near zero visibility. I discover that everybody who lives on Stewart Island looks like the captain.
I greatly underestimate how difficult riding 30 km back to Invercargill in the rain with a headwind will be. I stop for one photo, because they were all staring at me.
Strava says 11 miles and 1411 feet climbing on Stewart Island and 18 miles 367 feet riding to Invercargill.
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