Those who are still young at heart (and aren't we all?) might remember the song "The bear went over the mountain to see what he could see". But all that the bear could see was: the other side of the mountain. YIC had a similar experience when he walked the Pouakai Circuit from New Plymouth. It was a 2 day tramp to the scenically located Pouakai Hut where the sunset over the Tasman Sea was fantastic. Mt Taranaki looked much the same from the other side. After the tramp, he slaked the raging tramper's thirst with a delayed St Patrick's Day pint of Guinness in Peggy Gordon's celtic bar in New Plymouth.
Pouakai Hills