Haast

The drive side chain stay on his trusty carbon giant XTC hardtail separated just in front of the dropout.

One spanner and several zip ties or cable ties later, it was sufficiently rideable for him to finish the last 30 kilometers of that day's route to get into their planned stop for the day in Haast on the South Island coast.

Fossey caught a lift to the skip the following day.

Oh, to skip, sorry.

Fosse caught a lift to skip the following day's very demanding route across the Southern Alps to, I almost mispronounced that bit, Wanaka.

where he rented a bike to complete the last 1,000 kilometers, including going back to Haast after to finish the ride and the missed day.

He did the missed day as well.

Fair play, Fosse.

I actually vividly remember one time I was lying on the beach photographing a skink and I was just taking the sand fly bites.

This was near Haast.

I was just taking the sand fly bites.

And then it got to a point where I think my nervous system was just overwhelmed.

That text has come in.

Starting from Ruapehu, now driving to Haast, may end up in Greymouth by the time we get to number one.

She hard for number one, says Bruce.

The team from Epic 360 Civil and Drainage will have the rock playing loud on all our work sites across Auckland today.

Eleanor Dwyer has more.

Navy police and Coast Guard crews have scoured Lake Moraki north of Haast for the past two days following a possible sighting of the plane.

Senior Sergeant Mark Kirkwood says sonar and divers were used to assess the lake bed but nothing was found that warranted further investigation.

He says the victims' families were at the lake and the outcome is disappointing after an emotional few days.

You can do it.

This is a small township of Haast on the coast, whitebaiting season, but the local bar and restaurant owner is saying he's losing money at the moment.

Where's the road that's impacted that's causing the problem here?

So this is actually closer, this is State Highway 6, but it's actually closer to Harware.