It was certainly the back end of beyond! On our last day camping, we decided to head back over to Paeroa to see Mike's Dad again before heading home. I noticed on the map that there was a different route to Morrinsville (which you go through to get to Paeroa). I mentioned it to Mike and so we decided to try the different way. It started out well with roads just like any other, then we came to the dirt roads!!!! These went on and on and on until we felt like we really were in the back end of beyond. A house maybe every couple of K's! We made jokes about breaking down in a place like this saying surely cousin Cleatus would come take us home to Pa who (shot gun in hand) would insist we stay overnight while he worked on the car (and the Kemp's would never be seen again...). LOL.
Mike's sense of humour was starting to thin about 40 minutes in (by which time we could have been there going the other way). Just as I thought steam was about to come out his ears, we hit tar seal again and sign saying Morrinsville 11. It had no kms after the 11, so we just hoped and it all turned out well.
It's fair to say, we will never take that road again, but we did see some pretty amazing (and for the better part- untouched) landscape. One bit that really caught my eye was a massive piece of land named 'RockHaven'. This photo is just one of the 3 Mike was gracious enough to stop and allow me to take. It took about 5 minutes on a winding road to get across and around to the other side of the same piece of land, at which point you were looking down to the beautiful home built at the centre of the valley, surrounding by all these huge rocky outcrops. Just breath taking. A little too rural for me, but very beautiful.
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