Sir Edmund Hillary Explorer Tour - Wed 19 Apr 2023 - Aoraki Mt. Cook - Oamaru - Dunedin
Day 5 for us, instructions - bags out to reception at 7:30, 8:00am - Board coaches for Oamaru via Omarama & Waitaki Valley. 12 noon - Arrive in Oamaru and go to Loan & Merc for lunch. 1:45pm - Board train at Oamaru Station. 4:45pm - Train arrives in Dunedin Nothing too memorable from this day apart from morning cuppa stop and then lunch at an old refurbished Wool Sorting Warehouse that had been converted to a Cafe, and a train ride. The Wrinkly Rams Cafe was on the Omarama-Lindis Pass Rd, not far from the Omarama Golf Course. This is a photo Cody took of myself and David Watts, who had been looking to catch up with me from the seeing the name Mankelow from Tauranga on the Passenger List. David was wondering if I knew a Royce Mankelow who used to be the Head Shepherd at Poripori Farm along with David's father in the Kaimais. A link to Google Maps Royce being my first cousin, I tried to contact via Messenger, in the hope of putting the two together in conversation. I lear...
