Our last day in Northlands couldn't have been wetter! The rain poured down ceaselesly all day, so what better way to get our own back on the elements than to spend the day looking at watery sights?
Whangerei Falls:
Whangarei is the capital of Northlands, and 5kms. northeast of the town this broad curtain of water cascades over a 26 metre basalt ridge into a popular swimming-hole, though there were no swimmers the torrentially- wet day we visited!
Click to hear and see the water flow....
It was time for lunch, and we made our way to Whagarei's riverside Town Basin, where sleek yachts were moored outside a small redeveloped settler-style precinct of galleries, shops and restaurants.
Kawakawa:
Onward to the small town of Kawakawa and its celebrated public toilets! Not just any-old public conveniences, but a work-of-art created in 1997 by the reclusive Austrian emigre Freidrich Hundertwasser. Painter, architect, ecologist and philosopher, he made Kawakawa his home from 1975 to his death in 2000, aged 71.
The ceramic columns supporting the entrance hint at the interior's amazing use of broken tiles, coloured bottles and found objects, such as the old hinges on the wrought-iron doors.
Not what you expect to find in a sleepy New Zealand town's main street!
Enter the Gents........
(What Steve will do, and where he will venture, in the line of duty for this blog!)
.....and the Ladies. More detailed shots of the Ladies' facilities weren't possible because of the good-humoured but determined queue waiting to use them!
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