Dansey's Pass

Saturday 11th April: A sunny morning while we got the motorhome and boat ready. We drove south on the SH1 to just south of the Waitaki River crossing where we turned inland towards Duntroon. Just before Duntroon we turned and drove a few kilometres more to Dansey's Pass Motor Camp. This is a small site deep in a bowl with a steep drop down to the river. We took the truck along Dansey's Pass. We had read that it was narrow and winding and partly unsealed (i.e. gravel) but didn't realise what a bone-shaker it was. Fortunately we didn't try taking the motorhome along it! After 20km we decided we'd had enough and would turn round, but there was nowhere to turn round. We met a few hardy Merino sheep along the way but otherwise it was just never-ending hills of scrub and even a few dollops of snow. Finally after 40km we came to the end into a place called Naseby. This is a small town that originated as a gold-digging community.
Then we had to face the drive back to the campsite. The choice was to return through the Pass (which the sat nav said would take 4 hours but was actually an hour) or 180kms round on the next shortest route. We rattled back along the Pass.
The photos are of a couple of shops in Naseby and a view along the Pass.