Friday 20/4

Drive down to town and park in a little park beside the Mangawhero river and ride into town. Check at the local bike hire place that all tracks are open and head off. Big mistake did not ask the vital question , what kind of tracks are they. If I had of and got the answer rought metal farm tracks and shingle roads I would not have gone after doing the Old coach road the day before.

Neve mind off I went. After 22kims of road rideing the best bit was rideing back down the track beside the Mangowhero river.

So up stakes, food up and head to Waiouru Army camp with a short stop to view the Tangiwai Memorial where on Christmass eve 1953 the Auckland bound train fell into the river as the bridge had been swept away by a Lathar flood from Mt Ruapehu. There was a lost of 151 lives. On to Waiouru to park up behind the Museum with 6 other motorhomes