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The first stop is at the Waipapa Point

Look at what the wind can do, and how the trees adjust to their environment:

Then here is Porpoise Bay:

And Curio Bay, with its petrified forest, trees dragged out of the mountains by mud during a massive flood 180 million years ago, then covered by volcanies ashes and stones until erosion brought them to the surface.

 

Nice view from the hostel where I am staying, isn't it???