Anyway, onwards to Couldrey House at Wenderholm. This was built by my great, great, great uncle Robert Graham in the mid 1850s.
Robert Graham was an entrepreneur and politician. If he’d kept it in the family, we may not have had to pay our camp fee!
Around the headland and across to Waiwera.
We could hear machinery busy dismantling the once internationally known hot pool resort. Again, Robert Graham had developed this area in 1875 with bath houses and a hotel complex.
So sad to see its demise.
Onwards to, and through, Orewa. Still a busy township with cafes aplenty, parks and playgrounds on the foreshore alive with users.
Out of Orewa and along the East Coast Bays Rd. Past Snow Planet and then a left turn out to Stillwater. Once again we felt remote. Another 28k walking day.
A run-down campground, soon to be sold off and a dozen or so houses built in its place.
The camp caretaker Maxine, advised us on many things including when we would need to be crossing the Okura estuary tomorrow morning. Looks like a 5.30 am wake up time.
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