Movin' along

After climbing the mountain we drove not to the camping site we where before but maybe 50 kilometers south to a village named Okanuna. I was a bit tired so that distance was long enough. We came to another Top 10 Park, but to our surprise we did not get that friendly welcome as we had on the other places. It was a young girl that just did here duty as she probably thought herself. But with no service mind at all. The camper-van got its place though and Susanne got her room to sleep in, it was big and had a eating alcove.

We decided to move from this village, a ski-resort, early in the morning. I went to buy some breakfast in the local grocery-store. The early customers in the store was mostly Maori and boy are they tall and strong. Some of the mans where longer than Rickard and four times his width. I could understand that they see themselves as warriors.

Well the rest of the day we spent driving down to Wellington via Masterton. Masterton is a little town where Peter Jackson is supposed to have his other house, the first one is in Wellington. We had been driving down a completely flat landscape before and a bit after Masterton and we did only have about 30 km left to Wellington when suddenly a green jungle mountain appeared in front of us, we had to go really slow up the dwindling roads up to 555 m above the sealevel. They probably don't have the knowledge to build tunnels in this country.

In the avning we came to Lower Hutt where we should stay for the next 2 nights. Lower Hutt is a little city just outside Wellington.

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