The meet today was a lot of fun, still have sore sides from laughing so much. We meet at small township half way between two major cities, so some of us headed up, and some headed down. Hehe, the ones that headed down decided to stay off the main highway,........ aaand cut through a back road, that turned to gravel half way!! And we've had a fair bit of rain, not so clean Zeds.
Anyway, we all meet up not far from where we were going, then cruised to a place called Goat Island in Leigh. Very pretty even on a winters day, that was quite warm, I had to say. Lol, boohoo for those that bailed because of the forecast, and we ended up with no rain.
We had lunch a very historic cafe, that used to be a major saw mill in the area, back in the day. The place has atmosphere galore, as there is lots of the old machinery lining the walls and floorspace, and embedded into the concrete floor, and all the old wooden beams still in place.
http://www.sawmillca...nz/history.html
Goat Island:
There were more Zeds, but they meet us at the venue. Just after we left the venue we had a 260 randomly join our convoy for about 10kms, very cool, especially when there aren't many over here.
We didn't end the day there, we headed back to a larger township on route home, and stopped in at a boutique chocolaterie, that make their own chocies. The aroma as we opened the door was heavenly, inviting flavours of chocolate and sweets enveloping your senses. Drooling yet?!