Dunedin Railway Station.
Spectacular marble and granite railway station kept in immaculate condition. Fantastic start to the train journey through the Taieri Gorge. It is a special journey with the crew telling humourous stories about the history of the track along the way.
This is one of the bridges along the way cut into the rock along the side of the precipitous slopes of the rocky gorge.
We got off the train at Pukerangi where our kind bike hire man decided, as it was very windy, to drive us (well most of us, anyway, yes two of the hardy guys, desperate to get on their bikes rode from Pukerangi) to the top of the hill (12 km of uphill grind) and from there we rode the bike to Middlemarch - 21 km for some, 7 km for others.
We stayed at The Rocks, Middlemarch.
This gorgeous farm house is part of the 7,000 acre property
where they still have some of the original schist fence posts. Schist is a metamorphic rock that splits
somewhat like slate.
