The old Whangamomona road.
Eddie and i had just done the central north island ride.
I wanted to travel the old forgotten hiway back home on our last day, weather was damp and light showers, over the day.
Half way through this road, there is the old whanga road.
Eddie and i stoped at the Whangamomona pub for lunch.
we asked the locals about the old road,
Oh no you guys dont want to go through there, eddie and i looked at each other,,,nooding yes we do...
so off we went, we traveled along a good gravel road, which slowly turned to mud,and we came across this sign.
i looked at eddie, shall we....yes repiled eddie...Hmmm was this a good idea or not...
road was ok a little slippy in places but we just rode on the grass when we could,,thats not so bad. Great views of the whanga river.
came around the bend and we find a old tunnel.on the other side is a punga log road,as road is so muddy now.
so passed that section.
road starts to turn to shit, big bog holes, fall off count so far, me at 2 times, think eddie at 3 spills.
a little futher down the road we came across another tunnel.
what a neat road.
slipy slidy trying to stay up.
deep bog holes, i helped eddie out of one bog, and i got so covered in mud, just had to laugh...
we walked through here first, and rocks were falling down the cliff on to the road.
so we guned it through..finily 20kms and 3 hours later, we made it to the other end. out to the bridge to somewhere...
we were so glad to see gravel again.
in this next photo see if you can see the log stuck under the bridge, and yes thats how high the river get in flood...
thats our most enjoyable trip on the old whangamomona road.
a link to the road here.
http://maps.google.co.nz/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=-39.157552,174.740167&daddr=Whangamomona+Rd&hl=en&geocode=%3BFZayqv0dlkBqCg&mra=dme&mrcr=0&mrsp=0&sz=15&sll=-39.165938,174.744716&sspn=0.024223,0.038409&ie=UTF8&ll=-39.1491,174.74242&spn=0.012114,0.019205&t=h&z=16
can follow the road along the side of the river.
JMJ
