Our weather luck seems to be still not good, we are in now in the North Island staying tonight in National Park before commencing the 4 day Tongaririo Northern Circuit tomorrow. We drove north from Christchurch on Tuesday overnighted at Picton and caught the early ferry across Cook Straight to Wellington. We were at least lucky in that we have had two good crossings between the islands. After leaving Wellington we did the long drive up the west coast to Taranaki and our stay in the Mount Egmont NP. We had as accommodation the Camphouse - the oldest NP facility of its type in NZ, however we had it entirely to ourselves for two nights. It was a really good place to base ourselves. However as stated the weather was not kind to us. The planned ascent of the mountain had to be cut short a few hundred metres short of the summit as low cloud reduced the visibility to in our opinion a dangerous level. Then the following day the rain and wind was such that our planned two day tramp around a nearby mountain had to be abandoned. We left and spent last night in the town of New Plymouth, before driving here today mostly along the quaintly named "The Forgotten Highway".
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