South Island Trip Day 1
Breakfast and rain.
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Heading vaguely in the direction of New Plymouth this morning.
Lunch at Piopio.
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Afternoon tea somewhere in Taranaki. That’s the Elephant Rock in the distance.
And so to New Plymouth, a town I first visited in 1979 being a client rep for Shell, BP and Todd on a geophysical survey near the Maui field.
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Today we walked from our campground to the Wind Wand and back.
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