Monday, 16 March 2009

Northland Pt 3

I moved on up the coast in silence, due to the radio being rubbish, to a place called Opononi. You can see it nestled on the right of the river. The lodge was actually 5km from there halfway up a mountain. Thats where the sunrise was taken. Another great thing - they had a guitar!




The Wairere Boulders, near Horeke - the ONLY fluted basalt boulders in the WORLD!! And the historical mission house at Mangungu, where many Maori chiefs gathered for a meeting with the settlers.



Whangerai Falls and somewhere else



The amazing public toilets at Kawakawa, designed by internationally renowned artist, ecologist and architect, Friedensreich Hundertwasser. I added my own shade of brown to that particular toilet on the right.



There, I also picked up some 2nd hand tapes. As a result, I am now very fond of Mendelssohn's 4th and 5th symphonies and am completely in love with Chopin!

The lovely Ruakaka beach



Mangawhai Heads

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Opononi...planted lots of trees there! place where Simon took my hand for the first tiem. Place of my first ever fish and chips as well!!!!fantastic one, bet you missed it haha!? did you know about the stupid dolphin legend in Opononi?!Did you see any kiwi birds?possums?

Well...to talk about Belgium, I'm doing a bit of labour at the moment as we are presparing the seaon...I like it, Spring is coming and it's good for my heart to indulge in a bit of sun!!!

Anonymous said...

Cool, glad you found your way to the Wairere Boulders! They are ace, no?

Anonymous said...

I cannot believe Mum spent 5 minutes looking for your grafitti on the toilet, expecting some kind of 'Phil woz ere 17/03/09' She was somewhat shocked when I explained what you had really left behind and that future generations would fortunately not have to witness it!!!!

Anonymous said...

Don't believe a word of it!
We didn't visit that part of NZ so its good to see the fantastic scenery,great photos especially the flying gannet-Thomas likes it too.

Puppriss said...

Oh Mother, you are soooo silly!