Tuesday was a typical British summers day 15C and non-stop rain so after an initial attempt to see the local sites I retired to my warm dry motel room for an enforced admin day.
The following day I took off to investigate the Forgotten World Highway of which I had seen a mention on a road map but nothing in tourist information, I loved it, a one hundred plus mile drive through beautiful countryside with very few vehicles or tourists and some really olde worlde villages en route. I detoured to take in the Mount Damper Falls which were for a change actually worth going to, and visited the Republic of Whangamomona as well as meeting some herders moving a flock of a few hundred sheep up the main road. Lots of photos were taken. The highway ended in Taumarunui which looks like a frontier town, the steak I had at the local RSA club would have made a good boot sole for one of the local Cowboys.
Today was just a short 100 mile drive up to Kahwia and due to its remote location it is a lovely quiet spot with black volcanic sand beaches where again you can take a hot bath on the beach but without all the hordes that there were on the Coromandel at Hot Water Beach.
I have been on my best behaviour and I try to pull over to allow locals to pass me rather than get airiated whilst driving behind the #$**dy tourist doing 35 miles an hour, they do seem to appreciate my courtesy and I get the occasional flash of the 4 ways or a toot on the horn which makes a pleasant change from the glare I can often see in my rear view mirror of the guy three inches from my rear bumper.
Well I have been lucky with the weather no rain for the last two days even though it was forecast, I just hope my central heating system at home is coping with the horrendous weather back in Wales.
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