Just over a week ago we visited a place we've been wanting to see for a while. Wairere Boulders is a nature park that was originally created by Felix and Rita Schaad in the early 2000s but now owned by Graham and Paula Grant. Not far from the entrance there was this little fairy door and sign on the outside of this tree and there were several others dotted around the park. We were the only ones there because it was a Monday so it was extremely quiet apart from the sound of birds chirping and water bubbling along the river. Visitors can walk the trails, kayak along the river or camp in the campground next to the reserve. There are various trails, some easy, some a bit harder with steps but also quite a bit of climbing over large boulders. B and I walk through nature walks regularly but there was no way my parents (who were with us) would've managed this. The Wairere Boulders have slid down the hillsides from an eroding Pliocene basalt lava flow of the Kerikeri Volcanic Group...
- Photos of my travels around New Zealand -