Rain then sun...

We used our day off on Saturday to venture down the beautiful coast. A storm was pounding the West side of New Zealand so we got to experience a NZ downpour! The clouds and rain gave the landscape a mystical appearance. Along the way we visited Cape Egmont. There we saw a lighthouse and made a video of the waves crashing on the shore.

Here is a 54 second video of the rough ocean waves.

After our rainy drive to the cape we had a chai tea and a tasty chicken pie from Sugar Juice Cafe in Opunake.

On Sunday the clouds cleared and the rain stopped. We went tramping (hiking) at Lucy's Gulch in Egmont National Park. All the National Parks in NZ are free (maybe the high taxes pay for them?). The trees were very dense and some of them were 100s of years old! We climbed up high enough to get a great view of the ocean.

In this picture New Plymouth is to the far right.