Cycle: 86km

Neither of us slept very well after a wine, creme brulee and a guy with a guitar thinking it was fun to play until the wee hours. This followed by heavy rain in the night (never a good thing in Peggy, our tent) and the fishing contest starting early in the morning led to a slow groggy start for us.

Over breakfast we chatted to a couple of newly weds from Brighton who were fun and gave us a couple of chillies to spice up our cooking. We wandered down the beach (it was bang on low tide) to the famous Moeraki Boulders. These are often used in photos promoting New Zealand. They're strange spherical boulders which when worn down seem to be hollow! There are several clusters of them and they must be about 4 feet across. We had fun jumping on them and from one to another. We were trying to recreate the Southern South Island AA Booklet cover shot! There were loads of Japanese tourists wandering around and, feeling a bit wobbly (probably due to lack of sleep), tried to fix ourselves with caffeine and cake!

We managed to get on the bikes by 1pm and were a bit nervous about the day's ride. It was going to be quite far, mostly on SH1 and pretty darn hilly! We'd been considering a few alternatives, the first of which included an unsealed section... After trying out SH1 it proved to be nothing like as busy as Good Friday so we stayed on the fast road and avoided the gravel. We did take the long cut via the very hilly Karitane Coast (Karitane, Seacliff and Warrington). There were hardly any cars and we felt surprisingly good over the hills.

The final climb of the day was on a road we had to take to avoid the motorway. This ascended the 400m Mount Cargill from sea level in about 8.5km. We'd been worried about this one but shouldn't have been. The climb was steady and the air was cool enough to keep our bodies from overheating. The views from the top were good, with panoramas over the Otago Peninsula and Dunedin.

The descent into Dunedin was brilliant. The roads were a bit rubbish at the top then we hit a section of new seal and I laughed out loud it was so good to ride on. If there hadn't been so many sharp corners I would have definitely broken the 40mph barrier! Dunedin is set in the hills and we kept passing rediculously steep roads off to our sides - one of these is apparently the world's steepest at 38 degrees, or 1 in 2.9!

The air was cold, coming in from the South, and by the time we reached our Kiwi Holiday Park we were frozen. We set up the tent double quick and rushed into the showers to try and get warm. We abandoned shopping and cooking and went for the fish and chips!