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action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home3/aboarddi/public_html/blog/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114Saturday brought our first day trip in the car. Using the free New Zealand road maps on my old Garmin 276C we keyed in a route to Kerikeri. We detoured early on to visit a hardware store where I hoped (and succeeded) to get a shaft extension for my drill so I could complete the A\/C plumbing project.<\/p>\n
The directions from the Garmin soon took us up a rough track. It may have thought it was the quickest route and perhaps it was considering the <\/a>speed limit of 100km\/h as attainable. But a rough track winding road on the side of a mountain was not drivable at anywhere near that speed. We got some lovely views and a dirty car.<\/p>\n We first stopped off at the Kerikeri Basin Recreation Reserve so that we could walk the river, see the <\/a>falls and visit the stone store nearby. The whole area was incredibly picturesque. One can see why New Zealand was chosen to film the Lord of the Rings. The area felt like “The Shire”. The weather made it perfect.<\/p>\n The walk to see the river and falls was about an hour each way. The signs said it would be an hour and it was. Unlike the USA where we normally have to halve the posted hiking times. The first stop was an old <\/a>generating station set up to encourage retired overseas civil servants to retire in the area.<\/p>\n Next was the Wharepuke Falls which were pretty but we didn’t linger as we wanted to press on and make it back to Kerikeri for lunch \u2013 our minds had been set on the pie shop.<\/p>\n