Solo effort

Waking up in Te Kauwhata it seemed quite mild until you stepped outside! It must have been a southerly wind straight off snow because we were both shocked 😲. Lucky for the Tour guide because it was me the driver who had to get out and turn off the gas and do the dumping.
We always had the thought that Te Kauwhata was just a small non descript rural town. That image was shattered 😲 as we did a little drive around before leaving. There is huge housing development going on here. It looks as though a whole farm has been sold to a developer and literally 100's of small sections are marked out. The streets are very narrow with oneside marked with yellow lines.
The completed houses we saw only had single garages, so if a family had two cars, they are going to seriously clog up the streets. Oh well, I am sure the town planners know 😏 what they are doing.
Our destination was the Ngaruawahia Golf Course. The Tour guide wanted to cycle to the St Andrews Golf Course which was something we have done numerous times. I could not see the point in doing it again so let her go solo. However, something I was happy to do repeatedly was to have lunch at St Andrews so I drove there where we met for lunch. She then cycled back while I had the comfort of the van and set things up for her return.
The pics attached are what the Tour guide took along the way. Comment she made was that there was a lot of wind damage to trees along the way which we saw here too.Read more