Righto, enough stuffing around town, time for some more riding...

The morning was fine and clear (if a little chilly) as I left Invercargill and headed West.  The first 60km or so was nice, easy and traffic free tar as I took a new to me (except for a few km I did on the TT) road through Otautau and Orawia before rejoining the Southern Scenic Route once more.

Today my plans including visiting 4 different Southern lakes as I had discovered in my planning that this involved gravel...

The first on the list was Lake Hauroko and to get there involved some very nice, smooth and fast gravel before dropping down through some native bush to the lake itself.  The scenery was terrible.

After a bit of a wander around to soak up the serenity (and being surprised at not getting eaten by the famous Fiordland sandflies) it was time to turn around and head back to the main road again.
About 20km up the road it was time to turn-off and find the next lake on the list - Lake Monowai.  The gravel was pretty good on the way out there too:

I even managed to find a couple of views worth capturing.

Another U-turn and repeat of that nice gravel got me back on the road North.  By now I was thinking about fuel and tucker and made a little navigational whoopsie.  It would probably have made more sense popping into Manapouri but I hadn't put that in the GPS so instead rode past the turn-off that would take me up to my next lake and stopped in Mossburn before ret...