After a couple of quiet days in Gisborne we drove to Thames at the south of the Coromandel Peninsula where we're now in an historic farmhouse. It actually took us 9 hours to go about 350km as the road through Waioeka Gorge was washed away in a few places a couple of weeks ago so we had to wait 3 and a half hours for a convoy of cars and trucks to be ushered along the highway. That plus countless other places with roadworks in progress meant we lost close to 5 hours.
River with a rocks like you can slide down on a boogy board - which of course Di did, and has the cuts and bruises to prove it. I decided in the end that discretion was the better part of valour.
A Maori sailing boat of the beach at Gisborne
Gisborne Botanic Gardens
A few of the cars lined up waiting to be shepherded through Waioeka Gorge
The view from our farmstead cottage, plus one of the resident pheasants.
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