Thursday 5 March 2020

Day 18 and 19 - Milford Sound

On Tuesday morning the rally road wound through a version of Scotland, with village names like Atholl and Mossburn, ending up in a Southern Hemisphere edition of Norway: into Milford Sound, a fissure of ocean between 1,600 metre peaks. Rain forest clinging to cliff faces, and cascading torrents. Slartibartfast would have glowed with pride. And penguins! An overnight cruise including small boat and kayak sorties to the shoreline... well those sandflies gotta eat. A coach breakdown on the way out of the valley (closed to cars since recent flooding) meant a truncated Day 19 of rallying but still allowed the track test stage at Teratonga Park - part outer circuit blast and part cones gymkhana - where Peter managed a blistering 2:15 lap in Rosie, humbling some of the rally exotica.

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