Jack and Katrina's Place

As described earlier we arrived in the Bay of Island during a downpour. We pulled into Kawakawa to check the map and pulled up outside the restored railway station, Guy the little train nut was rapt and as we scurried into the staion tearooms for coffe and lunch he kept explaining tome that the little diesel locomotve was 'Mavis' an the other rusty red one was 'Salty' both diesel engines from the Thomas the Tank Engine saga. It was raining two hard to ride down the mainstreet of Kawakawa in the open railway carriages but we went back later when the rain stopped. Th e train runs twice a day through the mainstreet of town. But Guy wasn't satified with that, he wanted to explore the rest of the railway on foot. It is temprarily closed and being used as a footbridge after the towns real footbridge was washed away in ...ahh floods.

And when we weren't mucking about on trains, we were in the water, (urapukapuka again)