C’est la remise en selle aujourd’hui
On dit au revoir à nos super hôtes la larme à l’oeil (c’est dur de se dire qu’on ne reverra plus jamais ces personnes la )
Petite étape de 30 km aujourd’hui sous une pluie et un bon vent
Et 2 km avant l’arrivée je crève 😅
On arrive à Ross le Gold Town dans un Bistrot Hôtel de 1866. On décide de dormir en dur ce soir car ils annoncent très mauvais temps pendant la nuit donc juste à sortir nos sacs de couchage.
Puis Buffet à volonté au bistrot dans une super ambiance où on rencontre Iris, une jeune qui voyage pendant 3 mois
ROSS
9th Decembre 2022
Ross is a small town located in the Westland District on the West Coast of New Zealand’s South Island, 27 kilometres (17 mi) south-west of Hokitika and 46 kilometres (29 mi) north-east of Hari Hari by road.[2][3]
History
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Ross was established in the 1860s, during the West Coast Gold Rush, and became an important centre for miners.[4] At its largest, the town had around 2,500 inhabitants, but the population declined after local goldfields were depleted in the early 1870s.[5] Quartz was occasionally mined on Mount Greenland, a nearby ridge, but little more gold was found until two miners discovered a large 3.1-kilogram nugget in 1909, which was later named the « Honourable Roddy Nugget », after Roderick McKenzie, the Minister for Mines at the time.[6]
From 1872 to the early 1900s a number of Chinese lived and worked in Ross, and a Chinese Miners’ Memorial Garden on the shore of Ross Lake commemorates them.[7]
The settlement was originally called Jones Flat, but was also sometimes known as Georgetown and Totara. It was given the name Rosstown, which was shortened to Ross in about 1866, after George Ross, who was the Canterbury Provincial Council‘s treasurer at the time of the naming.[8][9]