We drove from Masterton due East to Castle Point. For an hour we travelled through lovely farmland with lots of small rolling hills.
Castle Point headland has the only sheet metal lighthouse in New Zealand and is the first light that sailors from South America see.
It is part of a beautiful bay surrounded by small houses and cabins.
We walked up past the lighthouse to a viewpoint looking back to a rock that represents an octopus in Maori legend.
As we were walking back, we saw a boat being launched in the calm lagoon just off the beach.
On our way to Wellington we crossed this forested range of mountains with some very steep climbs, descents and sharp bends.
In the early evening we walked down to the quayside in Wellington and saw a number of these boats being paddled in and out of the bay.
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