Gory Details
Trip Start
Jul 05, 2009
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Trip End
Jul 04, 2010
Gore, South Island, New Zealand
Friday, February 5, 2010
We didn't spend much time at all in Gore, but driving along the main roads there was enough to know that there wasn't much going on. We chose to stay in the area because we had to stay somewhere, and whilst making tracks down toward the Catlins in the South East corner of the Island, a stop-off point was required. Having read damning reviews of the South Coast town of Invercargill, we headed for Gore, and soon headed straight on out of there. We followed signs for a campsite we'd read good things about, and half an hour from Gore, along a series of gravel tracks, we found the no-frills site and spent the night there.
The countryside was beautiful, and driving past fields of sheep under a cloudy sky made us feel like we were back in the UK. Everything is so hilly and remote and gorgeous, other than the towns, which are just hilly and remote. I suppose when you're just around the corner from lakes, mountains, glaciers, fjords, oceanic trenchs and perculiar geological oddities, you don't need to bother making your towns look that nice. Who want's to stay and look at the town when you've got New Zealand on your doorstep?
