Volcano hide and seek

Legs aching we said goodbye to our hiking friends Alan and Alex and set off towards New Plymouth. Everybody we had met said that Mount Taranaki was worth seeing. Alan and Alex had recommended taking the forgotten highway there, and we enjoyed the panorama of our crossing yesterday, and drove past farms and changing trees. We even had to stop for sheep crossing at one point.

A choice then loomed left to follow the highway or right as google demanded. We chose right and I had to contend with miles of gravel road 😬. I literally yelped for joy when we rejoined an asphalt road and soon on the horizon we could see Mount Taranaki. A perfect cone that juts out from the horizon, it even had the classical snow on the top. Unfortunately neither of us took a picture at this point and later on it had disappeared behind the clouds never to return. These are my best attempts.Read more