Taranaki - Rainforest!

We reached our first destination which was in Mania. The Elders had recently been moved out of the flat and we needed to check the tidiness and cleanliness. We have no idea if more missionaries will be moving in there or not. Either way it needed to be sorted out. We met Elder and Sister Cochran there and had a lovely chat with them. Then we travelled to New Plymouth to stay the night at an empty flat waiting for a new Missionary couple to fill. We decided to follow the satnav , not sure if that was the right thing to do. But I guess this signpost meant we were going in the right direction.
It was still raining so the visibility was quite poor but we just headed in the direction the satnav told us to. Although we started to go up a hill which is not normally the way to go back to Taranaki. The bush was all around us but the trees were just a little different and the road was getting narrower. It is times like this when I wish we had a map in the car. We crossed over several one lane bridges as we wound around the road. The hour long journey was almost coming to the one and a half hour mark. Thankfully it was not getting dark. We eventually started to come out to more open spaces and we could even see some road sign. They were on the other side of the road so I looked around as we drove passed. Hmm! Welcome to the ………..Rain Forest. I just knew that we were going up Mount Taranaki into the bush lands, ha ha ha. We may even try that route again when it is not raining as it did look very pretty from what we could see.