A Tree and a Lake

On our walk down the main street of Greytown we saw this huge tree ahead of us and found it to be one of New Zealand's historic trees, an Australian Mountain Ash. It was planted from one of three seedlings stolen from a wheelbarrow in 1856.

                           

This is me standing beside the large trunk and below is the interesting story of how it came to be planted here.

                         

                          

On the way back to Upper Hutt we decided to go and view Lake Wairarapa, the third largest lake in the North Island. It was hard to get a good photo as it was so blustery it almost blew me over!

                         

It's hard to believe that we only have another week left in Upper Hutt before we fly back to Brisbane and onto the next adventure!