We left home on a mission to demonstrate to Grant that our Northland roads are not as bad as their reputation would lead you to believe. So we left home, up past Lake Omapere and Okaihau Golf Course and over Wiroa Road, past Puketi Forest to join SH10 just before Kaeo.
Carried on North, then side tripped into Mangonui and to the Rangikapiti Pa Reserve for the massive view. Back in the car and on to Cable Bay Store for lunch.
After lunch we hung left at the end of the Taipa Bridge and through Oruru to the Bush Fairy Dairy at Peria. And begorrah! We met the fairy!
From there our route home was up through Fern Flat Road (one of our more “marginal”) then across to Mangamuka Bridge and home.
A few clips of a couple hundy metres of Fern Flat Road, complete with teensy surprise right at the end.