The Forgotten World Highway

Hello again

I missed blogging last night as I was pretty tired when I got home from work at the back of 11p.m. It had been a really busy night, what with a big delivery and a constant stream of customers! It went like a fair till the last moment, and Keith even had to pack up the day's newspapers for return to the supplier, normally one of my jobs last thing at night! I honestly don't remember that happening for a long time!

Tuesday is normally a day off but with Moira on holiday till tomorrow, I was asked to cover her shift today and she'll do mine on Thursday! That was fine with me! I really have no problem going to work!

OK, let's get back to the NZ photos - on the Forgotten World Highway, through sandhills, albeit grass covered, and then twisting and climbing into native forest.

I enjoyed playing with this photo! The colours of course are not natural, but I liked the effect of using the filters.

The road in part was unsealed, but was a decent surface to drive on,

though there were times when it seemed to cling to the steep sides of a mountain made of sand. It was obvious it was a hard road to travel sometimes with drops into the valley on one side (thick forestation would probably stop you from falling too far as you will see in a moment).

and washouts or landslips from the sandy hillside on the other! It looked like there had been occasions when the road had slid a bit down the hillside and had been shored up!

This was on the last bit of road before Whangamomona!

Eventually I reached the Republic of Whangamomona, a little area that declared independence when their boundaries were to change and put them into a different area!

There's not a lot in the village itself:

The main building is the hotel, where I bought a passport and had a cup of tea before getting on the road once more, bound for Taumarunui!

And this is where I will leave you for now!

Talk again soon.