As mentioned earlier, we woke to see only some brief glimpses at the nearby mountain from our balcony. Several options were considered, but thought we would head across eastwards and navigate ourselves around the mountain. The road running along the coast is known as the Surf Highway, and several roads led from it towards the coast, where the sea was looking particularly rough.
We went through several showers, but stopped around 12.30 and had a picnic. Chatted to a couple walking their dog. picked up that their accents weren't local NZers, and discovered that they had moved over here 6 years ago from Yorkshire, originaly from Leeds.
We made our way back through New Plymouth and then towards Stratford to return to our room.
Then we were out again to see the clock in the centre of stratford which, on the chimes of 3pm performed a short piece from Romeo & Juliet. It appears that this place was named after the Bard and the glockenspeil chimes are shortly followed by life-size models appearing at various windows of the clock tower....
It was time for more mountain spotting and found a nearby road that led to the mountain plateau 6km away and 3 pops in our ears high! (its the official way we measure altitude). we arrived to find one other vehicle in a large car park but the top of the mountain came into view. The first time we'd seen it all day, as it had remained wrapped in clouds all the time during our drive.
we walked to a look-out platform, then back to the car as we saw the summit disappear again.
At least we can say we saw the summit!!
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