This post was meant to start with: “Two weeks ago, we decided we needed a break and decided to open google maps check the “places we want to go” list, calculate what was relatively close and go there to spend the weekend”. But now it won’t because here I am logging in to check the already written post to add the last photos and realizing that somehow the post is gone.
So as I want to be loyal to my word and publish another post, this time I am going to be short in the writing but long on the photos to compensate. So, let’s start over:
About a month ago, we were desperate for a break and so we decided to check our “Places we want to go” list and see what was close enough so it could be done in a weekend. There were two locations I was curious to visit because I’d been hearing it a lot lately (I am just going to show you one in this post, the other one will come in a few days) what I didn’t know was that the one I’m showing you today, had such a hidden (not so hidden, but unknown to me) beauty called the Putangirua Pinnacles. And you will say and what’s so special about it? Well, if we go the scientific way we could say something like the www.newzealand.com says:
“Around seven million years ago, the Aorangi Range was an island. As the mountains eroded, scree and gravel were washed down to the coast, where they formed a sedimentary layer.
Over the past 120,000 years, the Putangirua Stream has exposed this ancient layer of gravel to the erosive forces of rain and floods. Some of the sediments stayed concreted together, while others washed away. The result is the Putangirua Pinnacles 'an amazing collection of hoodoos”.
Or we can go the geeky way and say that the Putangirua Pinnacles is the real location of the Path of the Dead from the Lord Of The Rings! Remember the beginning of the movie The Return of The King? so yeah! Who wouldn’t want to visit that? Clearly, me being a LOTR fan myself couldn’t say no….
The other location was Cape Pallisser, which to me has a special meaning because I am a sucker with locations that are something and in this case, Cape Pallisser means that I would be in the Southernmost point of the North Island and because I love this kind of things I was sold. Little did I know that the weather would be so miserable that it would make for such beautiful photographs.
And now, without further ado, enjoy the photos and share them with everybody.
