It took us two lazy days to cover these 80km, although some of the time we spent walking the Tutukaka Coast beaches, setting up at the Russell Top 10 holiday park, and visiting Russell's little harbor.
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On the way out of town, we stopped by Whangarai Falls and
thought we'd do a bit of the garden walk; but rain was threatening... |
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On the bridge over the falls...good advice for any
bridge |
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| On to Tutukaka Beach |
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| Moi, there |
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| Other end of the beach |
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| Alas, the Mermaid Pool was closed; so we moved on |
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We thought we'd spend the night by a look-out with this view;
but then thought it maybe a little too lonely, and so camped at an
approved site on the estuary at Ngunguru |
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On to Russell, England's original foothold in New
Zealand |
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| On the harbor in Russell, blooms on a Pohutukawa |
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| Beautiful old colonial mansion |
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| A Cook Island Pine...you can tell by its lean... |
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Out in the harbor, the good ship R. Tucker Thompson, which we will
ride in the Tall Ships Race the next day |
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| Along the harbor shore |
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On the veranda of the Duke of Marlborough hotel and restaurant;
no two chairs the same |
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| The great Morton Bay fig tree; planted in the 1860s |
2 comments:
Beautiful beaches, and the biggest fig tree I have ever seen! I didn't know they lived that long.
You had good weather in Russell! Such a pretty place.
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