You can’t do all that Kayaking and hiking and then come home and just expect to go cold turkey so we took a 40 minute drive north to Shakespear Park in Whangaparoa for a hike.
We started out through bush which soon took us up the hill and across farmland. From the lookout at the top we could see as far as Rangitoto and out to Waiheke Island.
What’s a kiwi blog without sheep eh? These freshly shawn beauties walked into shot just at the right point.
It was another stunning sunny day. It astounds me just how good summer is here, I’d been in England so long I forgot how awesome consistent long hot sunny days are. Sunny days and big open fields with no one else on them.
Pretty stunning views.
Right at the beginning of the track there was a sign that said we’d come across cows and just to walk past them. No worries we thought, until the track led us to the top of a hill and on the other side of the fence WERE ALL THE COWS.
Every cow from every paddock had amassed at this one point to have a stand off at the gate. Again it didn’t bother us much, we pushed through the gate and strode into the paddock just as a big bull reared up onto the back of another cow. See again this possibly wouldn’t have bothered us if my own mother hadn’t had a similar experience on a kiwi hike across farmland that had her in a bull chase across an open field, my uncles screaming at her from the safety of the fence and ending with her safe, but in a terrified mess with wet pants (apparently she was busting for the loo prior to the engagement with the bull anyway, this was not a fear thing I’m told). Suffice to say we beat a hurried retreat and ended up having to climb the electric fence 100metres further down the field. Each of us pretended we weren’t really concerned for ourselves simply for each other as we did what can only be described as a running walk across the field.
Happy days.
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