TAKING THE ROAD LESS TRAVELLED
Mar 22, 2020
5 minutes
Story and photos by Ashley Lucas.
“THE OLD WOOLSHED HAD CERTAINLY SEEN BETTER DAYS, THE LONE CHIMNEY A REMINDER OF THE HOUSE THAT ONCE STOOD THERE…”
The old woolshed had certainly seen better days, the lone chimney a reminder of the house that once stood there, the yard littered with junk including an old beaten Land Rover, Allis Chalmers bulldozer and what was left of a Mini ute.
It was one of the 80 4WD North Island Adventures in Andi Cockroft’s book and after first reading about Ernie’s Place in NZ4WD 22 years ago, I have finally visited ‘Nirvana’, the home of Ernie Matthews, the ‘old man of The Moey.’
It was a fundraising trip into the Waitotara Valley organised by the Manawatu 4WD Club with a base camp at Ngamatapouri, a small settlement 55 kms up Waitotara Road, at the junction of the Waitotara and Makakaho Rivers;
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