Matakohe

King of the Kauri's - so big it didn't fit in the picture
Sitting inside a Bog Kauri Root

Spot Peter!

At the Kauri Museum, Matakohe

Cabin for the night at Matakohe

Road to Nowhere!

We had an interesting trip down to here. We thought we had seen the last of the untarred roads - how wrong were we - we had even worse ending in the road to nowhere we came to a dead end at the top of a mountain and had to turn and come back the 10kms or so to find the correct road. No wonder the local postie gave us a funny look! Anyway after finding the correct road we made good progress and the weather was kind and the view from that mountain top was awesome. We arrived in Matakohe late ish after noon to find it nothing more than a hamlet with a super museum all about the Kauri tree. We checked into our chalet which was lovely and clean and bright and welcoming it had to be there was nothing else there! We visited the museum which passed the time for us and after retiring to the chalet we ventured out to find something to eat - fish and chips our first of the trip and they were not bad !

Think you will have noticed something by now - it all revolves around trying to find our destination and food! We had an early night.