Egmont National Park

Trip Start Nov 01, 2005

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Flag of New Zealand New Plymoth, New Zealand
Wednesday, January 25, 2006

We decided to take the Forgotten Highway route to New Plymouth on numerous recommendations - Being a rainy day though put a bit of a dampner on the views which all came out pretty grey on Aldo's numerous pictures! We decided to take a turn off to do a walk to some waterfall that was appropriately called Damper Falls! We wandered through some fields and slippy forest and eventually arrived at the falls that turned out to be amazing after all the rainfall - the water was pounding out really fast and they were the highest we had seen. The walk in the rain all seemed worth it until I managed to slip and fall in the forest to which Aldo just stood laughing - he's such a gentleman no offer to help me up or anything!!

Anyway we got back to the car felling hot after the walk so I gently wound my window down - no electric windows in this bad boy car - and at the final turn the whole window fell into the door!

Fiona at Dawson Falls

! Aldo's face was a picture thats his bad karma at laughing at me falling. So with the car being unlockable and with us having such good things to steal like broken tent poles, we headed straight onto New Plymouth where we temporarily mended the window and checked into a nice homely hostel.

We took a wander down and checked out the New Plymouth pubs and then a walk down the pier where they have the bendy Millenium Wind Wand so after getting a few more classic pictures we headed back to hostel.

Our second day in New Plymouth was less eventful - we got the window fixed and headed to a park to do a less strenuous walk, feed the ducks and visit the mini zoo. Allan got a popsicle so he was happy!

We then headed to Egmont National Park, home of Mount Egmont where we did some more walks. Rather than challenge the snow capped mountain we took some shorter tracks - an hours walk to Dawson Falls through the bush which was good and then a two hour track that took us closer to the mountain and had loads of different scenery which was also really nice.

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