Day 23 - started out the day with a marathon drive to the highly regarded Kauri Museum (had a recent mention in the Lonely Planet) of about 400m. Thought we would stop in for a quick peruse....but soon found it may not be so quick... Absolutely fantastic! ...and that is from someone who avoids museums at almost any cost! This was no Charlie Russell! and Heritage 
Park could learn many a trick from this place. So, like, three and a half hours later, we stumble out to find a bright sunny day well under way. Just a note to those of you taking notes... this Kauri Museum is the good one and it is near Dargaville, not Waipapakauri....oh, and the big beach by Waipapakauri (90 mile something...) is pretty big, but you can drive further on the one(s) east of Dargaville (think it may be called Ripiro Beach) and may in fact be longer as well. Anyway, after the museum, we needed a drive to see the country we missed the night before (but that is another story for another time). Needed a coffee as well, so, based on a tip from a day back we headed for Maungatoroto (the less travelled route - of course!). Picked up the local real estate listings from the local offices and sat down for that coffee (and some free savories!)....it was a good tip b
y the way. Noting a couple of interesting listings to add to the ones we noted on our earlier wanderings, we went to see the agent(s). Cold calling a real estate agent is like doing an interview. Anyway, this guy turned out to be a pleasant surprise. Very helpful and didn't feel he had to babysit us...so we kept his card. Of course, as seems to be the way, all of the properties of interest were back the way we had just come... well, at least we know a good place to stay the night. If you have to retrace ground, might as well pick a different route...and it should also be on (another) route less travelled. Managed to find a couple of the properties and then the sun went down. Guess we'll get the others tomorrow. The lesson for today is, 'if at first you find nothing but ____, then try again'. To be brief, todays offerings looked much better than yesterdays!
Park could learn many a trick from this place. So, like, three and a half hours later, we stumble out to find a bright sunny day well under way. Just a note to those of you taking notes... this Kauri Museum is the good one and it is near Dargaville, not Waipapakauri....oh, and the big beach by Waipapakauri (90 mile something...) is pretty big, but you can drive further on the one(s) east of Dargaville (think it may be called Ripiro Beach) and may in fact be longer as well. Anyway, after the museum, we needed a drive to see the country we missed the night before (but that is another story for another time). Needed a coffee as well, so, based on a tip from a day back we headed for Maungatoroto (the less travelled route - of course!). Picked up the local real estate listings from the local offices and sat down for that coffee (and some free savories!)....it was a good tip b
y the way. Noting a couple of interesting listings to add to the ones we noted on our earlier wanderings, we went to see the agent(s). Cold calling a real estate agent is like doing an interview. Anyway, this guy turned out to be a pleasant surprise. Very helpful and didn't feel he had to babysit us...so we kept his card. Of course, as seems to be the way, all of the properties of interest were back the way we had just come... well, at least we know a good place to stay the night. If you have to retrace ground, might as well pick a different route...and it should also be on (another) route less travelled. Managed to find a couple of the properties and then the sun went down. Guess we'll get the others tomorrow. The lesson for today is, 'if at first you find nothing but ____, then try again'. To be brief, todays offerings looked much better than yesterdays!
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