Monday Oct 26th, 2009
We are heading to Wanganui today.
The mountain is shrouded in cloud this morning so it’s difficult to believe that there is a giant lurking under that veiled cloak. The last time this giant erupted was 250 years ago and there is no sign of it stirring this morning, thank goodness! Despite the clouds around the mountain, the sun is shining. Behind us the clouds around the mountain move. Alan stops to catch a photo.
Our first stop is outside the town of Hawera, at the Tawhiti Museum. This heritage museum is owned by artists Nigel and Theresa Ogle. They bought the 70 yr old Tawhiti Cheese factory with the idea of turning it into a museum, to show history of South Taranaki. All the displays use both life size exhibits and scale models to capture the past in super-realistic settings. The life size figures are cast from molds of real people and are designed and built on the premises. The smaller figurines are painstakingly sculpted in wax before a mold is made. The displays are original, thought provoking and unlike anything we have seen before. This was certainly a worthwhile stop. They also have the largest collection of t
ractors I have ever seen. I can’t remember what kind of tractor we had as kids!
Our picnic place is Patea Beach and we take the road to the beach, not sure of what we are going to find. The road passes a golf course and there are lots of sheep on this course chasing those little white balls all over the grass. We find the road that says lookout and take it to the most beautiful bluff overlooking the Tasman Sea.
The shore line is riddled with coves each one worth exploring but the tide is in and we can’t afford the tim
e to spend waiting for it to recede before wandering down the beach. Low tide is at 10:15 tonight!
We are heading to Wanganui today.
The mountain is shrouded in cloud this morning so it’s difficult to believe that there is a giant lurking under that veiled cloak. The last time this giant erupted was 250 years ago and there is no sign of it stirring this morning, thank goodness! Despite the clouds around the mountain, the sun is shining. Behind us the clouds around the mountain move. Alan stops to catch a photo.
Our first stop is outside the town of Hawera, at the Tawhiti Museum. This heritage museum is owned by artists Nigel and Theresa Ogle. They bought the 70 yr old Tawhiti Cheese factory with the idea of turning it into a museum, to show history of South Taranaki. All the displays use both life size exhibits and scale models to capture the past in super-realistic settings. The life size figures are cast from molds of real people and are designed and built on the premises. The smaller figurines are painstakingly sculpted in wax before a mold is made. The displays are original, thought provoking and unlike anything we have seen before. This was certainly a worthwhile stop. They also have the largest collection of t
ractors I have ever seen. I can’t remember what kind of tractor we had as kids!Our picnic place is Patea Beach and we take the road to the beach, not sure of what we are going to find. The road passes a golf course and there are lots of sheep on this course chasing those little white balls all over the grass. We find the road that says lookout and take it to the most beautiful bluff overlooking the Tasman Sea.
The shore line is riddled with coves each one worth exploring but the tide is in and we can’t afford the tim
e to spend waiting for it to recede before wandering down the beach. Low tide is at 10:15 tonight! We drove around to the shore. The beach is black iron oxide sand blown into dunes down the shore. It looks muddy at the shore as the sea churns up the sand as the wave’s crash on the beach. We watch a fellow land a nice sized fish off the pier. The water must be warmer as there is a crowd of children swimming.
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