{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-journal-js","path":"/journal/162","result":{"data":{"markdownRemark":{"html":"<h1>Picton to Nikau Cove</h1>\n<h3>Thursday May 17, 2018, 34 miles (54 km) - Total so far: 4,592 miles</h3>\n<p>(7,390 km)</p>\n<p>The day dawned bright and promising! What a coup in terms of weather avoidance\n:)</p>\n<p>The ride back along Queen Charlotte drive was hillier than we'd remembered!\nLovely though. Things took a turn for the even hillier once we turned onto\nKenepuru road. I was quite grumpy as I found it all pretty difficult. Somehow\nit always takes me a while to settle into the extremely slow pace of uphill\ntouring.</p>\n<p>We could have stopped at the first campsite (Cowshed Bay) but the tent-able\nsites weren't too appealling, and it's a 'scenic' site, thus more expensive.\nIt has a good cooking shelter though so would have been preferable in poorer\nweather. We pressed on and picked Nikau Cove, even though we'd stayed there\nbefore. The neighbouring site, Picnic Bay, is very small and there wasn't much\nchoice. Amusingly, we camped at exactly the same spot at Nikau Cove as we had\non our previous visit!</p>\n<p>The weather was pretty kind to us, and we also managed to pick a very\nsheltered spot. So no one froze, bonus! And we proved that it is possible to\nmake flatbreads on a camping stove :)</p>","frontmatter":{"date":null,"path":"/journal/162","title":""}}},"pageContext":{}}}