Walk the wind arch of this burnished place.
Leave the gravel road behind like childhood.
Tussock flayed by austere Waitaki winds
is harsh, archaic and blown quite clean.
Here nature still defies all subjugation
and I rejoice in blissful arrogance
standing solitary upon the lion’s back.
- Owen Marshall –
This is posted because it’s Montana Poetry Day.
Dansey’s Pass is the shortest, but not necessarily fastest, route between North and Central Otago.
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Is that where you go if you head from Alexandra to Palmerston HP? If so, it’s a road we travelled last year coming back from a holiday in Queenstown with the in-laws.
Just read that to my wife, very appropriate as my parents spent their honeymoon going over the pass
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No that was the Pigroot which is close but this is the pass betwen Nasby and Duntroon
I2 – Rayinnz correctly points out you were on the Pigroot which is sealed. The Dansey’s which goes between Naseby and Tokarahi (and from there northish to Duntroon or eastish to Oamaru) is unsealed, windy and often closed in winter – but beautiful.