Drove back from New Plymouth today.

Decided to go see the Mt Damper falls which is a 27km one way side mission, half of which is gravel road and very narrow ending with a very steep ascent up Mt Damper. Then a most pleasant 1km walk to the falls.

Except, the viewing platform is perched half way down on the side of the 75m cliff face and I was too chicken to go out on the platform. So I saw about half the Mt Damper falls, mostly the upper half.

New Plymouth is absolutely on our retirement location list. It's a much less sunny Napier but much less likely to be earthquaked into the ocean in our lifetime city that you don't really need to look both ways when you cross the road because there isn't enough traffic