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Early morning light and temperatures are the best!
1 week agoThank you, I’m doing my best to see and experience as much as possible!
1 week agoI agree with Rich! I love the experience of being *in* the landscape.
1 week agoNational flower of Scotland, but an invasive in New Zealand... Bull thistle. Pretty, but nasty thorns!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirsium_vulgare
----->Bill
Totally with you on the speed aspect of bike touring. We've found that we're kind of addicted to the slower pace and how easy it is to just stop and gape at the scenery or take a picture. For some reason it's so much more difficult to stop when you're in a car! Doesn't make any sense, but there it is...
1 week agoThe bike reflection is a nice addition!
1 week agoYep, what Carolyn said!
1 week agoYes, singletrack generally just means a narrow band of trail that can vary dramatically in difficulty.
1 week agoThanks Carolyn for the kind comment. The OGR certainly wasn’t easy but it was worth it and then getting dumped onto the west coast was brilliant!
1 week agoCan't tell you how impressed I am with you!! I was worried when you wrote you were going to attempt the OGR. I had recently watched a number of YouTube video's of it and decided it was way beyond my comfort level, stunning as it looked. But you did the whole thing with fully loaded panniers, even if you did walk for some of it. Amazing!
It's wonderful you are enjoying and making the absolute most of all the cycling available in this country with some of it not for the faint hearted. Even the roads can be scary with, as you've noted, the speed limit and no shoulders.
It's been great following you and looking forward to the rest of it. Hope it continues to go well. The South Island is beautiful so you've still got plenty of treats ahead of you.
I'm less terrified now. I think of "singletrack" as being like the trails here on Vancouver's North Shore and I don't ride there!
1 week agoSo much better than the stupid things BC Ferries provides--which I refuse to use.
1 week agoA shot of the surrounding environment is good info. too... Besides, sometimes the best photos are "accidental" results. Serendipitous maybe.
1 week agoNoted, I’ll try a little closer. With that shot the plant in the environment with the background looked great.
2 weeks ago
Blue are Phacelia
1 week agohttps://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/49347-Phacelia/browse_photos?place_id=6803
Tall yellow are mullein
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verbascum_thapsus
White are yarrow
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achillea_millefolium
Small yellow at bottom are probably some species of hawksbeard
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/54051-Crepis/browse_photos?place_id=6803