Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Te Kuiti

Still in Te Kuiti on RAR today, it is raining so we had a look around town and did a little Geocaching.

Rail Viaduct on road to the Gorge

Monument to the Giant Wetas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_weta
 
Monument to the Shearers
 
Te Kuiti is a small town in the north of the King Country region of the North Island of New Zealand. It lies at the junction of State Highways 3 and 30 and on the North Island Main Trunk Railway, 80 km south of Hamilton.
As of the 2001 census it had a resident population of 4,374, a decrease of 5.1% since 1991. The town promotes itself as the sheep shearing capital of the world and is host to the annual New Zealand National Shearing Championships.

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