what's the point?

just spent a delightful relaxing weekend away for a wedding at "The Point", a.k.a Whakamoenga Point, Lake Taupo. This favorite local swimming spot, best on the lake apparently, hides a complex of private holiday homes concealled in the native forest above. Here's the view from where we stayed...



this is the spot!

..or a bit further round, where everyone went to swim day after the wedding.

I found this pic in the Museum, showing the point when it was just a lone house (the property where the wedding took place as a matter of fact)

compare with this scale model of the place now:
the rocks in the front is the swimming point.

accessible by boat a bit further round are some Maori rock carvings done in the 1970's. here's a spooky cave we found in the forest...

and also, here's a footnote on a Museum exhibit which describes the Patu-paiarehe people as a mysterious tribe rather than mythological forest fairies.


beautiful sunsets every time. this place is def one of the best parts of Aotearoa i have found in my many travels!