eNZed - day 17 (31-5-5)

We woke up in anticipation of scattering goats away from our leftover veggies, or at least excited at the prospect that our veggies would be eaten and gone, but no such luck. Must have had too much human stink to them. Yuk!


We headed out to the Skytrek hike, but instead of a nice trail, we ended up following a muddy shit filled animal track. We crossed 2 streams, slogged up a poop covered hill (those of you who know me well, know how I giggled about this, and talked about how there were different kinds-clearly the difference between the sheep, cows, and goats), and over a fence to finally get a nice view of Old River Valley. This valley, of course, houses a oxbow lake and a good sized marshy place.

























Off to Taranaki!! Oh man, so exciting! A Kiwi volcano! And it will have snow on it!! What will I do with myself? We had some bread with oil and vinegar on the side of the road ( I ate 4 feijoas) and we watched the river from waaaay up.We stopped for groceries in Wanganui first and stocked up on Feijoas, cookies (biscuits), and bread.




We saw some very cool clouds on the way, right before the town of Hawera (ha-weerrr-uh) and decided they were forming above the volcano, so we definitely had to stop and take pics!

We stopped after that for a bathroom break where A and I got some much lusted after chai and Dave got some fries (I don’t know how he deals with that sauce!). It was so windy!

We arrived in Taranaki and decided to stay at the Holiday Park cause we thought it would be like the one in Rotorua.. could not have BEEN more wrong. The kitchen consisted of a toaster oven with a hot plate on top, with no shower or toilet attached. Man were we spoiled in Rotorua! At least there’s a sink to wash all the dishes out! They definitely needed a good washing.

We went to bed hoping to see Taranaki when we woke!