Clyde/Alexandra/Roxburgh/Tapanui Otago South Island 2023

Clyde/Alexandra/Roxburgh/Tapanui

Otago South Island 2023

New Zealand

Clyde

Burton Creek Recreation Reserve

Free to stay max 3 nights wifi good, we had a lovely time here beside the water swimming every day.

Clyde Lookout

We walked up to the Clyde Lookout and the Clyde Dam Lookout.

View from the dam

Clyde Dam

View of town

View from dam lookout

Looking over to our motorhome

There we are across the lake

Back in town

Some lovely front gardens

Historial building

Main street

There is a nice park for kids by the river

Now time for lunch

Fraser Dam

We drove to Fraser Dam 22 kms from the camp and a 4-wheel gravel road with lovely scenery.

Fraser Dam

Shags sunbathing on the dam wall

Hawksburn Road

Back road 4-wheel drive back to Cromwell via another lookout over Clyde

View from the lookout

Alexandra in the distance

Clyde

Alexandra

Molyneux Park

Free to stay max 3 nights, wifi good.

Mt Obelisk

4WD Symes Road took us to the summit of Mt Obelisk at 1682m this was an interesting drive taking 5hrs and well worth doing.

On the way back we passed people hiking up here glad I wasn't one of them

We stopped to look at Mitchells Cottage

Neighbour's dog they have 3 of them

Moving on up the mountain

Cute stone cottage

Road up

Views on the way up

Alexandra in the distance

Nearly there

Plants on the way up

Summit

Views at the summit

It was cold up here

Plants at the summit

Alexandra Museum

Went out to lunch at the Monteiths Brewery Bar and had the best fish and chip meal. Then crossed the road to look through the museum.

The dots are all mine dredging sites

Alexandra POP

Donation appreciated, wifi good, max 3 nights.

View from motorhome

4WD to Manorburn Dam and Poolburn Reservoir

This drive was 150km taking about 4hrs

Manorburn Lower Dam

Frog

Perfectly still day

Newly hatched ducklings

Heron chilling

From the lower Dam to the Upper is a very long bumpy drive

Old stone hut still being used as a hut

View from Cottage

Upper Manorburn Dam

We drove back to the turn-off and headed out to Poolburn Reservoir another bumpy road closed in winter.

Poolburn Reservoir (part of)

Poolburn Reservoir

Poolburn Reservoir

Poolburn Reservoir

We drove back to the turn-off once again to find a sealed road back to Alexandra

The photo doesn't show it but the rocks are painted gold (gotta love it)

Historic house on our drive back

Ophir Post Office

Conroys Loop track

It was hard going in the heat otherwise would have been a comfortable hike.

Roxburgh

Staying at Pinders Pond, free, wi-fi ok.

Pinders Pond

Our park is pretty full here with a rally on

Queen Street on a Friday night

Clutha River running behind camp

Cycle track behind camp

Drive to Lake Onslow

The road is rough but not too bad in dry weather.

Lake Onslow

It goes for miles and miles out here

Onslow Dam

View from the other side

We decided we better turn around looking at the roadway over there

Roxburgh to Lawrence

Frog went for a bike ride on the cycle track, then I picked him up in Lawrence and we had a nice lunch in the cafe.

Too hot for me out there, home for a swim.

Frogs ride

Tapanui

We stayed at Whisky Gully Domain Reserve so we could do the walk the next day.

We had our first lot of rain since I can't remember how long, we so needed it to try and cool the air enough to hike, it has been 30 degrees most days.

Wifi ok

Camped by the gate

Whiskey Gully Track

We walked through beautiful native bush to the waterfall after checking out the lookout on a side track. We encountered some steep inclines and slippery rocks with undergrowth and twisted tree roots. I was pleased to have strong boots and hiking sticks, most of the overgrowth was ferns that made my arm sting for a day.