On the road again 15th - 17th March

Bluebridge carried us across Cook Strait at 2pm which meant we had a bit of traffic to deal with headin out of Wellington. We only ventured as far as Paremata. The Ngatitoa Domain was already quite full but we managed to find a spot. Wed saw us drive a few kilometres to Queen Elizabeth Park for a stretch of the legs biking trail and some geocaching. It was lovely along the sea coast and then back through farmland.Then we struck out for Wanganui and arrived to a smiling Sally in her new rented house.

We left Wanganui around 12 on the Thurs and drove up the badly flood damaged Parapara road. We stopped numerous times for driver changes and geocaches of course. The Last Spike was to mark the engineering significance of where the last spike was driven in by the Prime Minister between National Park and Ohakune in 1908 for the Wellington to Auckland service.