Due to Neena having to work over most of Xmas, our annual camping trip consisted of just 3 days in the Taranaki region of NZ. We stayed at New Plymouth, which we used as a base to explore the local area. My only other trip to the town was 6 years ago when I drove up in my newly acquired Mitsubishi FTO sports car. To cut a long story short, I got nicked for speeding, resulting in a rather large fine and nice collection of demerit points, and in addition thought the town was a bit rubbish. Consequently, I decided to drive the 350km straight back to Wellington, rather than sully myself and stay their the night.
This time, minus the speeding ticket and in a much better mood, I found New Plymouth to be a splendid place to visit, so unreservedly take back my above comments. Mind you it rained pretty well all the time we were there, so the town has taken its revenge.
We also visited Dawson Falls (this features in my March 09 post, but Neena hadn’t been there before) and the Bushy Park Kiwi sanctuary. Dawson Falls is situated on the slopes of Mt Taranaki and is consequently one of the North Islands wettest areas, but rather ironically is the only place we went where it didn’t rain.
This time, minus the speeding ticket and in a much better mood, I found New Plymouth to be a splendid place to visit, so unreservedly take back my above comments. Mind you it rained pretty well all the time we were there, so the town has taken its revenge.
We also visited Dawson Falls (this features in my March 09 post, but Neena hadn’t been there before) and the Bushy Park Kiwi sanctuary. Dawson Falls is situated on the slopes of Mt Taranaki and is consequently one of the North Islands wettest areas, but rather ironically is the only place we went where it didn’t rain.
Dawson Falls.
A closer look at Dawson Falls. Note the rather fine tee shirt.
Bushy Park. This is as close we came to seeing a Kiwi. The one in this picture is not real.
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