THE LAST OF THE SOUTH & ONTO THE NORTH

Our spot for the night at Pohara Boat Club.

Easy pick mussels, Pohara.

Omaka Aviation Museum, Blenheim

On the ferry. Bye bye South Island.

Fells Locomotive Museum, Featherston.

Heading towards Cape Palliser.

Cape Palliser Lighthouse, 208 steps straight up.

The Woolshed & Golden Shears Museum, Masterton.

Castle Point lighthouse from our park site.

Playing trains with "Thomas the Tank Engine", Middleton Model Railway, near Eketahuna.

Looks the part but no fish, Mahia Peninsula.

Waiotahi Estuary, NZMCA park over property, Opotiki.

Our view of a Papamoa sunset from one of our favourite places,

Papmoa Top 10 Holiday Park.

WESTPORT AND NORTH ON THE COAST

Demonstration of the steepest part of the Denniston Incline at the Coaltown Museum, Westport.

Sandie and her tour group, Stockton Coalmine.

Capable of pushing up to 200 tonnes, Stockton Coalmine.

Top of the Denniston Incline.

Kohaihai DOC Camp just north of Karamea.

Beginning of Heaphy Track.

Box Canyon Cave.

Floor of Crazy Paving Cave.

Mirror Tarn

Oparara Arch

NATIONAL NZMCA RALLY, CHRISTCURCH

Opening ceremony.

Anzac Day service.

Steam tug "Lyttelton". We went for a harbour cruise on this.

Good Hawea friends Pam & Trevor.

Some of the Auckland crowd.

Weedons NZMCA park. We stayed here before and after the rally.