Classic Car

Wonderful deserted beach

A longish drive south to Upper Hutt, near Wellington. On the way we stopped off for a coffee where the main news story in the local paper was about a policeman who had his lip bitten off by a drunk driver whom he had stopped! It was at that cafe I saw a wonderful old American car, on its way to a rally at New Plymouth. Not a lot of other news in this part of the world. Later, tired of being in a car we had a picnic and swim on a wonderful deserted beach, it was so empty Sue said it reminded her of Daytona as a few people had driven their cars onto the sands from which to enjoy the waves. Totally uncommercialised, no shops, no ice cream vans, nothing there except sea and sand.