The weather has been cloudy and it has been trying to rain, but not with a lot of success. We have had drizzly showers that hardly wet the ground.
On Sunday we went across to Ashurst in Manawatu to visit a friend we know from when we lived in Raglan many years ago. It was a nice trip across with a big climb over the Tararua range just after Woodville. It isn't very wide and quite steep, so we were pleased that the Toyota didn't have any vacuum hose issues. At the top, we could just make out Mt Taranaki in the clouds. There are lots of power windmills up there. They are part of a large wind farm that runs along the top of the ranges.
Above is a photo I took when we came over the hill when we first came to the Wairarapa.
I thought I had taken more, but I can't find them. I didn't take them this time as I thought I had some. Isn't that always the way. They are pretty impressive when you are close to them. Some are right by the road, so you get a good view of how big they are.
On our way home we took a photo of a replica Harvard Aeroplane that flew in the 2nd World War. It is in a children's playground in Pahiatua and used as a slide.
Pahiatua roughly translates as the place of the gods.
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