southcoast cavalcade - progress Valley November 07

On Thursday 8th November we set off to Progress Valley in Waikawa, which is in the Catlins.
Here are some pictures - they never show the steepness of the hills we climbed up or down, but I hope you enjoy.....

" home" for the cavalcade - we slept in the truck , I made curtains!
Rob & Jester waiting their turn to go down onto the beach...Riding along the beach, we eventually rode to Porpoise Bay, and the camp ground that we visited when Rachel, Rich and Cole were here in January. The sea was much wilder, there were a few die-hard campers but the beaches were empty except for us!


Me on Keona, having a breather



Rob & Jester - on the way to Lunch at Waikawa Domain

Rob looking relaxed at the top of a very high cliff! See the high cliff in the middle of the picture below....that was the one! 500m down.... Keona messed about up there, and I now think he may have been feeling my unease (I was not very comfortable being so close to the edge!)

back view of the coastline we just rode up & over!

this is the view of a cliff side we were riding on - no fences, I just stuck the camera over the edge and clicked - didn't look myself, as I was too busy trying not to feel sick - LOL
Keonas Ears...and the group about to get very wet feet, one lady got a full dunking when her horse lost its balance and she fell head first into the water, she got her foot stuck in the stirrup (lesson learned not to wear hiking shoes to ride in - they do it as we walk a lot too) but the rest of the group donated part of their dry clothing, and she had a jumper, thermal leggings and some socks and a drizabone (wax long riding coat) to ride the rest of the way in (everyone had wet feet to at least their knees).
me & Keona again






Another rest before riding over to the bush in the distance.



The end of the day - about 3.30pm we sighted base camp, we got off and walked down the hill, it was steep, but you can't really tell in the picture.
....the rest can be viewed here
although they loaded up backwards, so the last pictures are first and the first is last ??? oh well it will stay like that as it took ages uploading them....NZ broadband ..the bane of my existance!