A magical place - The Nugget Point Lighthouse dates from 1869 and was automated in 1989 Have you ever coveted a view? This feeling doesn’t come over me often, but having seen pictures of the Nugget Point Lighthouse, I just had to see if it really did look the way it did in the brochures. Before that though, my first mission this morning, apart from trying to get petrol out of an automated bowser with a foreign card, was to drive back to see Matai Falls , which I had missed the day before. This was a lovely waterfall with a second fall, Horseshoe Falls as a bonus, but someone had told me that the turn – off was about 20km back immediately after the bridge, so I had an interesting detour around the countryside first, and it was just as well that the service station was open by the time I got back to Owaka, (home of the Waka or Canoe in Maori). At least the proprietors did accept my card, but be aware that this happened to...
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