Today was still really wet when we woke up :( so we headed south to Kaitaia to do some supermarket shopping whilst it was raining.
When we came out of the supermarket the sun was shining for a few minutes which made us hopeful!!
Onward south we drove through some very heavy rain showers and a few patches of blue sky to Wairere Boulders. The Wairere Boulders are huge boulders 3-4m diameter (if not bigger) in a wooded river valley. The walkway took you over, under and through the rocks. It was amazing!!
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| Wairere Boulders |
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| Wairere Boulders |
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| Ruth stood in a boulder cave |
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| Luke clambering through the boulders |
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| Just look at the size of them!! |
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| Luke hiding in another boulder cave |
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| The boulders and footbridge |
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| Can you see the beautiful patterns carved in the rocks by the erosion? |
We continued our journey south to the small towns of Opononi and Omapere where there was a lookout over the Hokianga Harbour and the Tasman Sea.
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| Hokianga Harbour from road |
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| Hokianga Harbour from lookout |
Onward we travelled to the giant Kauri tree forest called Waipoua Forest and saw a HUGE Kauri tree which is approximately 2000 years old!!!
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| The "Lord of the Forest" giant Kauri tree |
We then found a campsite in the Forest and who should also be there but a British family who we had been on the 90 mile coach trip with a few days ago.
a good place for bouldering for acre mill crowd!
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