Takaka – 14 January 2021

The Kiln
We decided to do a day trip to Takaka.  The weather was warm and fine.  It is a long time since I travelled over the Takaka Hill and I had forgotten how long it was.  It was a slightly longer journey than expected due to a holdup while remediation of the road is undertaken due major slips.  I remember the road being closed for a while. 

Takaka is small, quaint and friendly.  When we arrived we wandered the main street to find a good place to have coffee and a bite to eat.  Both were good.  It was an interesting place from a tourist point of view.  Unsolicited, a woman in the café offered to help us with where to go for the short time we were there.  We went to Pohara Beach which Bev had been to many years ago and had a lovely walk including paddling in the water.
Paddling at Pohara Beach

After that we visited the Te Waiporopupu Springs.  They were still lovely but  so different to what I remembered when I last visited twenty five years ago. 

As it was late when we got back, we went for a walk to the Upper Moutere Hotel that is reputed to be the oldest pub in NZ still operating .  It was quite buzzy due to the number of people there.  It was good pub food and even the wine was good (a local wine Neudorf Tiritire Chardonnay 2019).

It was a nice evening that included talking to a couple who had moved from Queenstown to Richmond  and had found work quite easily. 

 

Waiporopupu Spring

    
Dancing Spring 
 


Comments

  1. Lewis19 January 2021 at 12:55

    Takaka......did you go on to Collingwood, guess you didn't otherwise you would have mentioned it. Love the blog, Sydney Seagull

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