Two Moto Kiwis Arctic To Antarctic May 2012...

[Two Moto Kiwis]

Well mum nature could have been nicer to us but at least our tent got a good wash, we set off for Pruhdoe Bay at 8.00 am and arrived at 12 noon for 140 miles, the road was a combo of very bad to very good, mud, bog, tar, shingle, potholes etc, lots and lots of roadworks.



The last 50 miles we had a very strong cross wind so we got to use up use a good portion of the right hand side of the tyre, is was very hard work for me let alone Ellen, full credit to her she is a wee machine as that would have been as hard as any Kiwibiker would have endured and still smiled.

Over the passes there was thick pea soup fog and freezing conditions, both our carbs iced up on numerous occasions so temperatures we were guessing were around zero or below.

The Prudhoe Bay tour left at 3.15pm from Deadhorse and took 2 hours, it is actually about 16 miles from Deadhorse to the Ocean, cost is $49.00 US per head, spendie but worth it.





For those of you who have not been to Prudhoe Bay it is no small operation, there are over 500 miles of roads by the oil companies purely at the bay, not including the access road in.

Big Drilling rig



Local Fox with three legs and some KFC



Sign at Prudhoe bay



Myriad off pipework, literally thousands of kilometers



Big machinery



Even a local forest which is green all year



Local grizzly and her cub



Photo of an Asian tourist taking a photo ... who woulda thought?



Some dodgy bugga with a big smile and literally on top of the world.



It was blowing quite hard, probably 45 - 50 mph wind



Here we are still in love



Vast is the only way to describe it eh



Evidence of the rock stolen from Prudhoe bay to be matched up with his Antarctic counterpart some miles away and the little (empty at this time) flask given to us by Frank and Simone to take with us to the top and bottom of America



My promise to you Frank I will take it to the bottom of the world to get Ushuaia sticker.



When one gets to Prudhoe and pays dearly to get there one must take advantage of the freezing conditions and chilly waters... so game on, when we lost the feeling in our feet it wasn't so bad



Bloody poser