Rest of Coastal Walk & Surf Highway (+ Dawson Falls)
Woke up on Sunday to discover the sun was shining! Great stuff! So me being me I decided we had to finish what we started and go do the rest of the Coastal Walk - this time we drove to where we started running back towards town on Saturday…
FYI - the Coastal Walk is 6KM long each way, so I didnt fancy walking all the way to where we had started then doing it and going all the way back!
It turns out we had almost made it to the Port anyway so it was only a short walk - maybe 1KM? Beautiful Views and it was here I remembered that New Plymouth had a Mountain (Mt Egmont/Mt Taranaki) - we hadn’t seen it yesterday because the whether was so crap!
So we had to wait around because we were picking up a motor for one of our mates brothers and hadn’t herd from the guy we were picking it up from, so we stuffed around got some lunch (from trusty Burger Fuel - I had to try a beef burger since I had chicken last night!) and sat in the car (it may have been sunny but it wasnt warm!) and read our books & magazines and relaxed by the ocean until we heard that we could go and get the motor.
Around 1.30 we had the motor and were on our way home via the Surf Highway - now this is something I highly recomend to do - you can see the Mountain & the coast basically the whole way (well we turned off at Manaia - so at least until there) I really enjoyed it just driving along and stopping at random towns (Stop at Opunake and have a look around, go to the lookouts and down by the beach!).
It was then that I had the clever idea to follow a sign that said Dawson Falls - being ignorant we didn’t know where they were at all and we ended up halfway up one side of Mt Egmont!! I am so glad we did this even though my thighs hurt for a couple of days after -I’m a short person and not very fit - the stairs to climb up and down to the falls were rather large!
We then decided it would be quicker to head back via stratford rather than go all the way back to Manaia and down to Hawera. And that was the end of the excitement for the weekend!
Ciao for now - Exams over the next couple of weeks so may not have updates or any more quick trips up our sleaves for a bit - although there are a few places I want to head off too for a weekened or day trip so we shall see. 
Posted by mooloo on 06-12-2008 at 11:06 pm
Posted in New Zealand, Taranaki
3 Comments »
You have a beautiful country, Amanda. I love mountain shots!
Tony
Hey, great blog. I love all the photos you incorporate into your posts.
Thanks guys, now get your butts over to NZ