Perry Turner saddled up in Bluff & cycled to Queenstown, where he & his family  joined the groups doing the Around The Mountains leg plus One Day Ride from Kingston to Lumsden.
After only one day of rest, the next leg begun Lake Dunstan & Otago Central Rail Trail. and then it was onto the Alps2Ocean & West Coast Wilderness Trail. The Banks Peninsula Walk was the last group trip for the South Island... here's the last action packed blog from the South Island that covers multiple adventures between Christchurch & Picton. On Friday 16 Feb the Orthopaedic Flying Squadron started the North Island legs off in style; Remutaka Incline,  Kenepuru2WellingtonHospital,  Escarpment Track, Wellington Ball  &  He Ara Kotahi  in Palmerston North. From there two groups of riders rode & rivered Mountains2Sea & Hawkes Bay treated their registrars to a weekend at River Valley Lodge. The largest group of riders yet tackled the Timber Trail & the six day ride from Cape Reinga back to Auckland was also started concurrently at this time.
Hawkes Bay worked some rostering magic & took all their registrars to River Valley for some R&R (one of those R's is grade 5 rafting). From there it was Rotorua Redwoods , a boat trip to Tarawera hot pools & Kaituna was another grade 5 rafting adventure.
A good sized group walked from Waihi Beach -Homunga  with a great evening at Falls Retreat & the Relay crossed the finish line in Auckland with four events: Fishbone (unfortunately a storm cancelled the fishing trip), Golf, a Gala Ball & Waka Ama. 

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