Cardiff

I carried on into Stratford, of which you can find photographs elsewhere if you're interested. After a cafe breakfast, supermarket mission and a trip to the post office to send back a surprisingly large boxload of surplus gear, I continued west with a view to getting south to Hawera without having to use SH 3. This was partially successful. First up, Cardiff, one of hundreds of tiny NZ settlements which died when the men didn't come back from WWI. I headed south here, which was the wrong thing to do and I ended up on Highway 3 anyway.