We start off with some exciting glimpses of Mount Taranaki. Our goal is to circumnavigate it today.
Our first stop is at Waitara.
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| Can you see Australia???? Very muddy water after all the rain. |
By the time we turn back onto the Main Rd the mountain is starting to be shrouded in cloud.
We had morning tea in Inglewood, and stop in Stratford - famed for its glockenspiel clock where the little figures come out - but not every hour, just some.
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| We missed it by about 2 hours either way. |
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| Lots of things in Stratford are very Shakespearised - like the drains! |
The farmland is more typically dairy farm now. When we went to the museum yesterday there was an interesting video showing how the volcanoes in the middle of the North Island erupted spewing ash over the Taranaki District (long before Taranaki blew its stack) - sort of prehistoric fertiliser.
Its hard to find a decent cafe for lunch and we drive on past more CLOSED museums to Opunake.
Below are two views of the hotel there - the top one on this trip and the bottom one taken on our honeymoon 46 years ago!
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| Unfortunately we took them from two different aspects. |
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| A nice ANZAC display - every cross named, so the men were remembered. |
Once back in New Plymouth we head out to Hurworth, which is the original homestead of Harry Atkinson (became Prime Minister) who also settled in the Mangorei District (Carrington Road). Alas this pioneer cottage - the only one remaining - is closed. It seems every avenue to explore my ancestry in New Plymouth is CLOSED.
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| Brooklands Bowl in Pukekura Park |
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| Extensive new seating being added to the cricket ground. |
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