Springing into winter
Mangatutu Hot Spring is one of those places which is well known to the locals but little known elsewhere in the country.
For us it made the perfect leisurely three-day trip complete with a couple of nights camping. Our search for a campsite turned up Waiwhenua Farmstay and Riverside Park, off the Napier – Taihape road, where we duly booked an unpowered site for the next long weekend.
After our traditional late start on the Saturday morning, and a short fight with the traffic in the Hutt Valley, we met up with Ashley and Gillian at Featherston and headed north for an uneventful run all the way to Hastings, where we refuelled for the rest of
