I am doing a bit of touring around the North Island right now, so posting has been on the back burner. I will be adding photos and a few trip details with time. Instant gratification can be found on my Google+ page, or by following my SPOT (for real time location updates when I am in the woods - owing to battery consumption, I won't be using it while driving). Lastly, in the right side bar is a new gadget that, I think, will email you new posts, or notifications of new posts, which may make it easier to consume my mind grapes.
Travels thus far have included Rotorua, Tauranga, Waihi, New Plymouth, Taranaki (cloudy summit), Ruapehu (cloudy summit), and Napier. Napier has earned itself the best small city in New Zealand ranking in my experience, and New Plymouth might edge it out for car owners who could easily escape to Egmont National Park. Of course, both cities shut down for the day at about 16:00, so Minot probably edges them both out in terms of exciting cities to reside in. The trip has largely been about walking to the top of Volcanoes. Yet to come are Ngarahoe and Tongariro, but hopefully they will have clear summits, unlike the top of Taranaki, where it took a good bit of effort to find the summit owing to the cloud cover.
Cool! You can recommend some places for us to visit when we are in NZ! Hoping that you have clear, cloudless summits!
ReplyDeleteAll the summits were cloudy, but that make it enjoyable in a different way. It also meant that less people were on the mountains. As the weather got worse on the Tongariro Crossing, the number of people steadily decreased. Thus, no complaints about bad weather.
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