We completed our last hike of Hike-about 7 today in exhilarating fashion and with only a couple of bruises. We have been blessed to have enjoyed each adventure immensely with the elation, wonder and excitement incremented each time. Notwithstanding that one faces and must deal with life’s trials and tribulation each day wherever one is, Hike-about 7 easily surpassed them all. B'H. We are indeed most grateful.
A sequence of pictures relates a little adventure below: (Click on a photo for size increase)
Towards the latter stages of the hike, we met and walked with a couple from Te Puke—there’s that name again. The guy mentioned he had worked in Tzaneen, South Africa for a spell. What he found strange was that in watching rugby with the locals, when the visiting team scored, the silence from the spectators was deafening, indicating perhaps, that the Kiwis may be fairer sportsmen. We mentioned our experience with Peter Whiting, the well-known All Black giant, we met at Roy’s Peak. He related that in local circles, Peter was famous for cutting his hedge with a lawnmower. And there we were, issuing a physical challenge to this giant of a man on the edge of a mountain.
We spent four days in Waihi, an active gold mining town. Let’s take a look at the opencast mine that ‘sits’ in the middle of the city, we decided on Shabbos. In reading up on it, we find that the famous Newmont Mining is the operator, a company in which we own a few shares. It would have been nice to pick-up a dividend while in the area but that may have been pushing it…a little.
We will sign off after the next blog in which we select a few pictorial highlights and pay tribute to some very special people.
Cheers,
Jenni and Jeffrey
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