McVey Kiwi News: Trip to New Plymouth and back

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Saturday 21 July 2012

Trip to New Plymouth and back - May 26th, 2012

Our May outing was a 5-hour trek north to New Plymouth and 5-hour trek back to Wellington. We tied this on in one day. In total five couples met up along the path as we drove north to meet with the Hirschi's who live in New Plymouth. They have been kind enough on a couple of occasions to make the trip south so we felt that we should reciprocate and make the trip north. It actually took us through two cities whose courts we would be digitising so that knocked out two for the price of one + the great company of other seniors. The map below shows the trip in red.

On the way up we stopped at Cape Egmont on the western coast with Mt. Egmont (Taranaki) in the background. It's a beautiful setting! Below are McVey's, Overton's, Chesley's & Shepherd's.

We met up with the Hirschi's and they showed us the sites in town. Below are some of the group shots we took while touring. It was really...really fun!

And of course had to end with the traditional dinner.

This time at Cobb Restaurant...yummy!

Below we'll show you some of the sites we saw on this trek north.

Here's Cape Egmont lighthouse with Mt. Egmont (Now Mt. Taranaki) in the background. Mt. Taranaki rises nearly 8,500 feet and is quite amazing being that it's like next to the ocean.

These next 2 photo's of Mt. Taranaki are compliments of the internet. The day was very overcast and you could not always see the mountain. Tradition has it that she (Mt. Taranaki) never let's first time visitors see much of herself. That held true on our trip so it must be true!

Our next stop was at the Pukekura Park in New Plymouth. It was still overcast and a little drizzly, but what a beautiful park! We'll just show pictures with no comments below.

Next we made a visit to the Te Rewa Rewa bridge made to frame Mt. Taranaki, but because it was overcast, we could not see the mountain. It looked like a monster whale carcass to me!