Road to St Andrew’s: Part II

In Part I of this series of posts, I showed photos [“A” to “I” coloured orange] of a walk which I called The Road to St Andrew’s.

The first close encounter with a living being, except for flocks of grazing sheep every here and there, were a  couple of extremely well-dressed Dobbins:

…near one of the many streams which filter down through the hills and feed the Waikanae River in the Reikorangi Valley, as below:

After the Deck House, one encounters an old cottage which appears to be made of corrugated metal, and I suspect is being used as a shearing venue and woolshed. I like to refer to it as The Red Shed . Anyone care to hazard a guess why?

(Above): The Red Shed at 119 Ngatiawa Road (labelled “M”). I wonder what it might cost to renovate and to restore back to living accommodation – it looks structurally quite good, on a nice flat section of land… From Google Earth, I extracted the following frontal view:

(Above): A short distance further at 111, is Riverstone, a Bed and Breakfast place called Riverstone Garden Cottage [labelled “K”]. It seems to be the perfect place to stay overnight or for a weekend. Eppie and Paul Murton are the owners.

(Above): A really charming and peaceful country river-setting for Riverstone Garden Cottage as extracted from their website.

(Above): [“L” on the map] This shows the typical paddock view towards the river for many properties along Ngatiawa Road. Traffic is not all that frequent along this road.

Three huge old trees stand like professors outside their college. This is location “N” on our aerial Google photo.

My,my, how quickly one can cover distance when you’re having fun taking photos of the different views. Here we are with Mangaone South Road, which I had set as the end of Stage II of the three-part walk.

Part III of The Road to St Andrew’s is continued in the next blog post.