On And On It Goes . . . Mary Chapin Carpenter

We left Kurow after a cooked breakfast and headed towards central Otago which is farming country with a dash of gold mining history as well.  It was raining and misty but our luck held and by morning tea time the sky had cleared.  I chose to drive to Danseys Pass. It wasn't hard core but there were lots of turns and hills and I was in four wheel drive for some of it. Our truck is manual so I had to changed gears :-) too. This pass was an early route into the Maniototo Basin.  The hotel at the top of the Pass was built in 1862 to serve the miners working on the upper Kyeburn River.  Our morning tea stop was at Naseby another gold rush town.  Now it has an indoor curling rink!
Next was an interesting drive through big farms which have irrigation and so we saw dairy herds as well as sheep and beef. Our destination was Poolburn and it has a unique landscape of rock tors. The main blip is some of our group. Extra is all the woman and then all the men looking at us.
Further on we passed the solid buildings of a Tuberculosis Sanitarium from the 1930's and Hamiltons cemetery from the gold rush times.  We returned to Naseby so some of us could have a try at curling which was fun.  We are spending tonight in the historic Danseys Pass hotel.
P.S it was 3c this morning.  249 kms