Whakapapa

A day for hiking:

On the way to Whakapapa there was a waterfall...Huka Falls on the Waikato River.  A sedate river squeezing through a 15 meter gap and dropping 9 meters.  Quite a roar and lots of water.

Very pretty!!

Here is where we stayed at the base of Mount Ruapehu, didn't take my own picture so found this.

Go to Tongariro National Park to see more, learn more about the pictures below.

Too many to stick on one post so will do more later....tomorrow......There is no logical order to these.  There is also no logic to the Great Fire Wall of China....I have had  the VPN on for over two hours now and it seems to be still OK....

Flax.

We took a couple short walks in Tongariro then Mike and Olivia went up a chair lift and hiked higher....they actually got to walk on snow:)

The quilter in me liked the tiles on the floor....nice quilt border:)

View from the top!

More in another post!

Love , fondly, sincerely,

Zaijian,

Ramona