So... did the weather clear? Did we see a mountain?
Oh gosh yes!
On arising, at 6:30, David walked out to the street outside the RV park and looked south.
Woo-hoo!
We slurped our coffee quick and headed out.
The clouds changed every few minutes.
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The circular boundary seen on the map and in the aerial photo in yesterday's post was probably in fact drawn by a compass, on a map, when the national park was established. Within the circle is a dense forest of native New Zealand plants. Outside is light-green cattle grazing land.
On the left, private land; on the right, national park.
The narrow road up to the visitor center through native jungle.
We went for a walk.
It turned out to be another challenging walk with stairs.
Twenty minutes into the walk it became clear that it was all stairs, first down, then up, then down some more... so we bailed with 40 minutes of exercise. New Zealand walks are for vigorous walkers.
Coming down-slope, we visited a Rhododendron Garden, which we will show pics of on some slow day later. Then we continued to drive the circle of roads around the mountain.
From the northwest it was wearing a wind-blown veil.
Later from the east it had on a tutu.
A final look from the north.
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