Kerikeri

A nice day enjoying the sunshine.  We drove down to the Stone Store basin again and then walked a track we spotted yesterday which goes through the biggest forest of gum trees I have seen in New Zealand.  The track came out at Kerikeri and we walked to where we could join the track from Rainbow Falls alongside the river back to the basin.  We got ice creams and sat on the hillside overlooking the Stone Store and Kemp House in the shade of a big pohutakawa tree.  We had lunch back at the bus and then put up the awning and whiled the afternoon away reading and relaxing.

Sorry it is sideways - Malcolm and gum trees

part of the view from shady pohutakawa

rear of Kemp House - this is where the missionaries came and established themselves in the early days