travelled on the Te Mata Road - Kawha Road - On to gravel road of the Raglan Road then headed south onto Highway 31 Contacted Mike KA1CU with Craig N4UOG and Larry N4MRM we were parked on a high spot near Te Kauri Park Scenic reserve to pick up the Highway 3 on to Te Kuiti.
Te Kuiti is best known as the Sheep Shearing Capital of the world.
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| Looking over Aotea Harbour south of Raglan |
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| Monitoring 28.720 |
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| Arrived at Mick & Rita's kettle was on and cup of tea was soon on the table. Sadly Rita had to go off baby sitting their twin grandchildren. |
After we had tea and few pleasantries :-) Fred and Mick went to Mick's radio room. Where Fred Closed his eyes.
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| Fred resting his eyes |
We were shown our room for our stay 2 nights
In the garden the lemon trees were full of fruit, Fred tried the lemonade fruit
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| Lemonade Fruit Tree |
Tuesday Morning Mick took us sight seeing, before we left Mick had to fill the bath for the calves water. Our first stop was Waitomo Glow Worm Caves
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| Mick's Limousine |
Tuesday evening Rita came back from her child minding and we sat and had an evening meal, the I emailed night before we contacted Steve ZL1ACE he quickly replied to say he had been waiting for our call and was happy that we were very much up to schedule with our plans.
Wednesday Morning came all too quickly, We checked over the camper van and I collected all our stuff from the bedroom and bathroom ready to leave Mick & Rita.
Before we left we took a look at Mick's youngest son's Drag Car.
Now for our good byes...
Saying good bye from the town centre
Good bye from Mick & Rita
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| Can't believe we missed out on a McDonalds |
