Today dawned to a beautiful warm, sunny and still morning with lots of sleeping in and recovery after the big day yesterday. With the warm sun the Ger all looked like Chinese laundry with all the gear drying from yesterdays drenching.
We enjoyed the sun on the ‘beach’ right in front of our Ger before gearing up for a short ride up to a volcano. It was a rough and rocky ride up then a climb up to the crater, but it was very impressive.
On the way back we stopped at some ‘caves’ - sink holes over lava tubes really. We had our resident Geologist Brad giving a great description of everything - I knew we bought him for a reason.
There were a few storms brewing and when we heard the first clap of thunder everyone jumped on the bikes and rushed back to camp - we certainly didn’t want an other drenching. While we were enjoying lunch at camp the first rain hit and over the next 2 hours we got some dramatic storms, although I think most of us might have slept through them! It is a rest day ...
John has another Yoga session this afternoon and there are a few people swimming in the lake, and general relaxing. They report it is not as cold as Blue lake - I will trust them.
My KTM 690 has been pronounced dead - They can’t seem to repair the radiator - so I have been offered a BMW for the last 3 days. There is a fair bit of bitumen coming up so that should be good - but I am now looking at the wet ground after todays storms, and we have some off-road tomorrow so that will be a bit of test, but good fun I am sure. Apparently tomorrow is one of the most spectacular valleys. We just need the storms to hold off, but they appear to be mainly in the afternoon so fingers crossed.
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