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.

Oakura Beach

Today we left Oakura Beach and our little beach cabin and headed up to Te Kuiti.

The owners of the Oakura Beach Holiday Park, Jan & Al were wonderful, even gave us a fresh feed of fish caught that afternoon for our dinner.
The weather was absolutely perfect.
http://www.oakurabeach.com/oakura-beach-holiday-park/welcome_idl=2_idt=4027_id=23147_.html



Oakura Beach

Oakura Beach



Oakura Beach Holiday Park Office

Different views of Mt Egmont as we head off.

 

The New Plymouth Power Station was a 600 MW thermal power station at New Plymouth. Located at Port Taranaki, it was dual fuelled on natural gas and fuel oil. Constructed at a time of major hydro and HV transmission developments, it was New Zealand's first big thermal power station planned for continuous base load operation. Now Decommissioned.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Plymouth_Power_Station





 

 Waitomo Glowworm Caves

The fascinating life of the Glow Worm very well explained by our guide.

These are only found in Australia and New Zealand, the other countries having Fire-Flies ect.

 

Glow-worm larvae Feeding webs

Glow-worms