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Kerikeri river walk

步道平緩沿溪而行有兩處壯觀的瀑布 Rainbow Falls and Wharepuke Falls 森林景觀很不錯各種不同植被溪流景觀也相當吸引入最後到達Kerikeri Basins 造訪歷史性建築 Stone Store and Kemp House等非常優值的步道

We started at the car park on Rainbow Falls Road on the outskirts of Kerikeri and began by taking in the spectacular Rainbow Falls. There are three viewing platforms within 10-minutes’ walk from the car park and from here we looked down the 27m drop from the top of the waterfall

Rainbow Falls - 1st lookout

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Rainbow Falls - 2nd lookout

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Rainbow Falls wier (堤堰)

the remains of a weir that supplied water to an early hydro-electric station further down the river

walking down to the river bed

spectacular scenes on the way to the river bed

讓人驚艷的岩壁

Rainbow Falls - 3rd lookout

彩虹瀑布毛利人稱此地為彩虹的水域堅硬的玄武岩沖擊而成27公尺高的彩虹瀑布

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步道沿溪而行有boardwalk 並有不同植被

這段樹林最優雅林木蒼鬱並有boardwalk穿行其間

溪流景觀流時而平緩時而奔騰倒影更是優美

Fairy pool

Good swimming spot

吸引人的湍流

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amazingly wide Wharepoke Falls

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這處相當吸引人有特色的gnarly puriri

remains of a historic power house

Kerikeri’s first hydro pumping station, built in 1930 to produce power for settlers arriving from England

荷花池

夏天可以可到盛開荷花

步道進人一片草坪

草坪上的雄壯蒼勁大樹

從草坪經過橋就到Kerikeri Basins 可造訪一些Kerikeri重要建物

good view from the bridge

從草坪經過橋就到Kerikeri Basins

Kemp House

NZ's oldest building (Completed in 1821–22)

large range of furniture and personal items owned by the missionary families who lived here

Kemp House is the sole survivor of the Musket Wars of the 1820's, a series of as many as 3,000 battles and raids fought throughout New Zealand among Māori between 1807 and 1837. The battles resulted in the deaths of between 20,000 and 40,000 people.

全紐最古老的木結構建築之一原由「傳教士協會」於1822年所建之後鐵匠詹姆斯坎普(James Kemp)和其家族在此生活了142年