The Otago Rail Trail - Day 1: Clyde to Omakau

6 April 2012
We caught a bus from Queenstown to Clyde where we were meet by the people who gave us our bikes and panniers. After sorting out our gear we were on the road for our first day of the rail trail.

In Queenstown ready to get on the bus to Clyde

In Clyde with our bikes and ready to go

Kara and George - I shouldnt have told George how to back pedal : )

Rebecca and Milly

Our first stop was Clyde Dam with the steepest hill in the entire rail

Cruising along the river banks of our side trip along the anniversary track

At each stop someone had to down a beer. This is an old drill head

First challenge - looser of paper/scissor/rocks goes swimming in the river

Glenn and I luck out

Beer stop - old gold dredging site

Anna has a go on the rope swing

The convoy

Michelle and Tania getting their Rail Trail passports stamped

The old bridge in Alexandra

The Alexandra clock

We stop for lunch in the park

The ladies waiting room at the train stop at Galloway station

Becs squeezes the baby trailer through the cattle stop

Dave and I go for a swim to cool off

Beer stop - one of the many gangers sheds along the trail with information panels