{"id":8164,"date":"2024-03-29T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T03:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myblogary.com\/?p=8164"},"modified":"2024-04-01T16:30:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T03:30:27","slug":"the-best-therapy-has-two-wheels-and-a-set-of-trails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myblogary.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/29\/the-best-therapy-has-two-wheels-and-a-set-of-trails\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Therapy Has Two Wheels And A Set Of Trails"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Ah sunshine. A perfect day for our bike ride on the West Coast Wilderness Trail<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The trail is 89 miles long, from Ross to Greymouth, and goes through rimu forests, wetlands, over former railway bridges and along the Tasman Sea. We only biked a portion of the trail though, not the whole thing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We rented bikes with Kiwi Journeys<\/a> and they were awesome to work with and very organized. They shuttled us to the former gold mining town of Ross<\/a>, so we only had to bike one way back to Hokitika, a very easy 21 miles on an e-bike!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From Ross we biked to the Hokitika Treetop Walk<\/a>, a 65 foot high canopy walk over podocarp trees in the rainforest. Podocarp trees are a type of conifer tree that have cones and fruit; they are not a flowering tree. Rimus are one of the most widespread podocarps in NZ and my new favorite tree. Many trees rely on birds like the wood pigeon to eat the seeds and distribute them around the forest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We started our walk on the skywalk and if you\u2019re afraid of heights, well this would not be your cup of tea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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