Today we went first to Te Rewa Rewa bridge. Our luck was in and for a brief 10 minutes the volcano was in view!

We were pleased to get this view, very lucky. Soon the cloud rolled up to the mountain and covered it for the rest of the day.

We went to a lovely park in the centre of the city….. Pukekura park. It has a long thin lake to walk around, and in spring and summer there are many flowering bushes. It is Autumn here now and not so much colour, but lovely reflections in the water.

As I mentioned the volcano was covered by cloud but on a good day it looms up from this lake and you could get a great photo by the tea house here, never mind!

In town we took some photos of the art gallery. It is very curvy and covered in shiny stainless steel. It makes you look thin and fat. Here are thin pics only hee hee!

After our walk through the park we went to Mount Taranaki visitors centre, half way up the mountain. We looked at all the displays and videos and had our lunch here. No sign of the volcano we were standing on only clouds.

Now back at the motel we are getting ready to leave tomorrow.