Hastings

Not a word about 1066 here, but a nice quiet-looking town, near Hawkes Bay, surrounded by orchards and vineyards, home to NZ's second-largest wine-producing area. And art deco buildings similar to Napier, a bit further up the coast. Hastings was affected by the same earthquake that leveled Napier, and much of it too was rebuilt in the style prevalent of the 30s. We enjoyed having a nosy.

The afternoon before, March 1st, we camped at the Clifton Beach
Preserve, right above the pounding surf

In a bit of a gale, looking toward Napier

And toward Cape Kidnappers

You gotta be proud

Anyhow, some of more interesting art deco we
saw in Hastings

Main street; like so many off the beaten track NZ towns, it's
a time warp back to the (US) 50s

Love the AD street lamps

Murals right and left too

And sculpture

Clock tower

So how many city park fountains have you seen bisected by RR
tracks?

Piece de resistance

Nice, interesting town

Tui Brewery

After Cape Palliser we decided to stay on the east (Pacific) coast for a while. We had done much of the west coast in 2014, but had never done the east coast much north of Napier (until Coromandel). The east coast is much more sparsely populated, more Maori, but just as scenic, and unhurried. It turned out to be a good choice. After wading through the customary Kiwi sheep drive, and deciding not to visit the New Zealand Stonehenge (to be addressed in the next "Quaint, Curious, Quirky..." post), we stopped for a late lunch at the Tui Brewery, south of Woodville. Tui, I imagine, is to the North Island what Speight's is for the South Island, that is, the national beer. Both have breweries that are fun to visit, Tui particularly, as explained below. We never spend money on brewery tours, BTW, preferring to spend it instead on the beer.

Original brewery

The tour site

Humor everywhere

Several beers on offer

I limited myself to three; they were not memorable, as beers
go; the food was even worse; but that's not why you come here

The decor following a certain theme

In the museum

Informative and amusing

Some years ago Tui's "yeah right" ad campaign was famous
and still remembered

You get the picture

Best of all, the brewery has a billboard where you can create
your own "yeah right" message

There is a smallish brewery on the premises, but I think this
must be like Ben and Jerry's in Vermont, an old or original
site, for tours, while most of the ice cream is made in a huge
modern plant way up the road somewhere; or in some other
country

Part of the tour we eschewed

Cape Palliser, 2

More of fascinating Cape Palliser...

Looking toward the sunrise

Looking down

Driving back up the coast...entertaining fur seals

The lay of the strata contributes to the jaggedness of rocks
on this coast

Way up, a huge block teeters...

There is no cove nor harbor along here, so the fisher-persons
launch and recover their boats using trailers and--not tractors--
but bulldozers

My guess is old bulldozers are cheaper than old tractors