...Mount Doom! (Mount Ngauruhoe, actually).
It's actually a stunning sight from the Desert Road, as it's called. And if that weren't enough, there is the slightly higher, and more cloud-obscured Mount Ruapehu..
And then we hit Vinegar Hill, which was less snowcapped, but you could see further and as far as I know, it hasn't featured in any dwarf'n'elves films...
This view is very important, because in it are several of the best preseverved formed river plateaus in the world. But I bet you knew that.
And then just before we got back to Wellington, we had lunch in Palmerston North. Probably named after a Lord Palmer, someone will tell me, it had the distinction of being a featureless city with shops...
A bit like Portsmouth. It even has its own Tricorn Centre...
I'm being a bit cruel, because it also has some very fine art deco architecture (somewhere - didn't see any of it) and is a big student town so "buzzin'", apparently.
And I suppose the town square is impressive...
...and the sky really was that blue today!
Staying in Wellington tonight and it's an early start for the ferry back to South Island tomorrow!
2 comments:
I've been to Vinegar Hill - a very good 'colour' day for you...even if it was probably a bit cold!
Seem to remember we decided we didn't have time for Palmerston North........not disappointed in that - 7 years on!!
Susan
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Palmerston was a British Prime Minister. I think that you didn1t take history as one of your options. Dad
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