It was our last day of working here on Easter Monday. The shop wasn't overly busy as a lot of campers went that morning. Some stopped for snacks and coffees for the journey home, but a lot just went out the gate.
We have the solar panel man coming on Thursday. We were just going to wing it with the controllers for the solar, but it is quite confusing, so the man is coming to check it out and hopefully make it understandable. We are going to get another solar panel on too, so we should have plenty of power for the future.
We are going to be going to Uretiti DOC camp on Friday for 2 weeks. We will teaching Abbey about living off the grid while we are there. It's not too far from Whangarei to take her back to the airport on the 12th.
Yesterday we went to look at Abbey Caves. There are 3. The first one is called Organ Cave, then we have Middle Cave and lastly Ivy Cave. I don't know how they got those names. I suppose Middle cave is fairly obvious as it is in the middle ha ha. We only looked into the entrances and thought not for us. We walked the loop walk of 1.3 ks, which was a pleasant walk over farm land and through a bit of bush. There are lots of limestone outcrops that have interesting shapes. Some even appear to have trees growing out of them.
The original 409 acre farm, was owned by Nathaniel and Amelia Clotworthy in 1860. They built a house that resembled an Irish Abbey, hence the name of the cave system. The house burnt down in the 1920. The farm was bought by golden Bay Cement who were going to mine the lime stone. In 1989 they sold it to the Whangarei Council to be a reserve for the people of Whangarei.
Our next stop was the Whangarei Waterfall. The river that runs through Whangarei is the Hatea River. The falls are about 26 metres high. Abbey and I walked around the small loop track that takes you from the top to the bottom and back again. A very peaceful place to visit.
Abbey waiting for the paparazzi to finish 
Entrance to Organ cave 
Entrance to Middle Cave. The lights are from people who were exploring a bit down there. 
A tree clinging to the lime stone rock 
Lime stone rock with interesting shapes carved by the water
Whangarei Falls from the top, the bottom and half way around heading back to the car.
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