Haumoana - Blogabond

Haumoana (15km, 453km total) - Wellington deserves more time. I've seen some of the street life and hit up the main museum, but I feel like I've barely scratched the surface. There wasn't enough time to visit the WETA Workshop of any of Wellywood (Wellington's filmmaking locations). There are gardens and scenic preserves left to explore. There's a buzzing arts, dance, and theater scene which has remained out of reach. A couple days is not enough time to do Wellington.

I did manage to buy an outlet adaptor that will work for my camera battery charger, so I can finally start taking and uploading some pictures of this trip. We also managed to run into Paul, the guy who biked with us a few days ago. He was just walking down the street and saw us with our bikes. It was good to see him again. We had a beer and were able to catch up a bit before we had to board our bus.

The bus ride was uneventful, but the bus was much more derelict than the last one we took. We did pass through a very impressive area of central New Zealand that was completely covered in wind turbines. They looked weird up on tops of the hills, and many of them dwarfed the hills they were standing on. We got off the bus at Hastings and biked the last 15km to Kahu's parent's House on the beach at Haumoana. It was dark when we got there and extremely difficult to see any House numbers. I think we managed to scare Kahu's mom when we came walking out of the darkness. They have a beautiful little bach here. I would love to have a little cabin like this to go away to for the holidays. Shad's letting me test out his tent tonight, and I have to admit it's pretty nice. Keeps the bugs away anyways. The beach is close and I can hear the waves just on the other side of the House.

written by

aeonhunterinnz on December 23, 2009 from Haumoana, New Zealand

from the travel blog: AeonHunter in New Zealand

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