Waihi Beach 1

We all packed up, put our stuff in the trailer and squashed seven of us into a Toyota Wish.  We headed for Waihi Beach for a three day holiday. The holiday park was crammed with everybody making the most of the last of the holidays.

Waihi beach from the bridge. It is a lovely swimming beach 

The next day we all caught the train at Waikino station....

to the Karngahake Gorge Historic Walkway.

The Waihi area is gold mining area and the walk took us past an abandoned gold mine which gave me lost of fun shapes to play with photographically.

We also saw beautiful scenery and had our lunch besides a river.

The initial plan was to walk all the way to another walkway called the Windows track but after asking directions from a group of maintenance guys who laughed at the thought that we were planning to take a one and a half year old, a four year old and a six year old on such a long walk. So we decided to abandon the second part of the hike for the following day.