Bridal Veil Falls

Bridal Veil Falls - on the way to Mt Egmont - January 1999It was now time to get the tent out and start for Egmont where we have a couple of days booked at the Mountain House hotel. We set out down the West coast, an area we did not know at all. We worked our way down on minor roads, many of them of them unsealed gravel ending up in a campsite at Raglan, chosen because it was enormous with 300 sites bordered on one side by a river and the other by the sea. In the event we probably did not need to worry as the Kiwi holiday season is so short that everything frees up by the second week in January. The site was less than half full and as far as we could see mostly locals, many Maori. A good staging post but a bit short on facilities compared to most commercial sites although every pitch had its own power hookup and water tap.

More gravel roads as we worked our way South. We stopped to walk to the Bridal Veil falls. It looked quite a small stream but the 55m falls were very pretty and well worth a visit.