Winter Solstice Tour

20 June to 22 June, 2014

Page One - Friday

 

Ron's GPS Map

 

 

 

 

Getting ready to leave camp.  From the left
Neale (just), Lyn, Louise, Andrew, Paul, Athol, Susan, Judy, (saying a silent prayer), Garth (telling everyone what he had in store for them), Margaret, and Kit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Garth goes bush.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Negotiating one of the bridges on the old tramway track.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Another bridge on the track. The walker balancing carefully in the air
insisted that he should take a group photo.

 

 

 

 

Here it is.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bridge #03.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Making steady track progress.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A pie or a sausage roll? The morning tea dilemma for Paul, Kit and Athol.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nice scenery on the Whangarei Heads Road.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lunch at Pataua.  The long view.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A closer view.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A real close view.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Another bridge!!  This one goes from Pataua South to Pataua North.
Unless you are going the other way, in which case it goes from Pataua North to Pataua South.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A closer look.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A distant look.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And this is the bridge from Pataua North to Pataua South.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Heading home along Pataua North Road.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Glorious scenery from Tahere Road.