To Okaihau

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 Went to visit a cousin, & naturally stopped along the way...


Te Kao Store 6am

Sunrise at Rawarawa

A very typical gravel road

Rut roh...sand & no turning area. A 5 point turn later 😂 

Rawarawa Beach. Whitest sand ever! Walking now

So beautiful

I’m almost there. A trough full of gold🤩

Awanui


Seen on a side road to a hotel in Houhora

Houhora Hotel next door

Paua Pies 😋 

The Paua pie shop

In a cream sauce Only $10 🙃

Houhora

The Kiwi bach ~ very rustic 😂 Awanui


Pukenui

Awanui 

Landscape & cattle in Awanui 

Gorgeous green pasture in Awanui

Avocados as far as the eye could see, bringing industry to the area, but wiping out everything in its path with insecticides. Awanui 

Ahipara Shipwreck Bay

Fish cleaning station

Composting toilets

Beautiful artwork around the showers

Hot showers! During the day anyway

Shipwreck Bay Ahipara



The shipwreck. See the pipe? A local surfer told me a hilarious story about this. A local didn’t like the European name of the area, so he cut the mast etc off the shipwreck. A European guy objected & put another pipe on the ship, so the surfers know where it is, & don’t hit it 😂 

Shipwreck Bay Ahipara

Parking $5 @ Shipwreck Bay...

A Well hidden reef area

Volcanic rock structure when the water recedes

Some local history on the foreshore of Shipwreck Bay

You never know what will cross the road in this country 😂 

Woolly cows up here in Ahipara. Some Manuka trees in the foreground

I guess I’m going over them huh

Say what? Kauri tree in Awanui


Gorgeous native trees in Awanui 

A beauty of a day & brown hills on Kaitaia - Awaroa Rd

Landscape from the top of Kaitaia - Awaroa Rd

Lots of rain this past week 

A Cool milk can letterbox in Awanui

Awanui


Broadwood 

The old bakery

Main Street 

A concrete tank & pump shed

Apple trees along the road

The old church, still in use

Broadwood ❤️ For the drovers & settlers

Swing bridge in Broadwood - disused now


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