Damper Falls is the largest waterfall in the north island and only an hour and a half away, so we decided to check it out. You take the forgotten world highway (and that is the actual name of the road) over rolling hills and into the winding mountain roads. Out here the animals run free or have escaped, so need to be especially careful around the turns. Once we got there, we walked through a field where the sheep were grazing and I took the sweetest photo of a lamb. They are tough to get close to, but I got lucky. I was pretty much stalking them and they were quite suspicious of me. All I wanted was a photo, but they thought that I wanted their wool, I'm sure.
Anyway, we got on the trail and walked down to the falls which were incredible. Rick decided to get a different perspective of the falls so we veered off the trail a bit. The detour was a bit
slippery so Rick suggested that it would be better to go directly up the side of the mountain to get back on the trail, so I said "sure, if I was a mountain goat!" So up I went
parallel with the mountain side grabbing
hand fulls of grass to pull myself up. All I could think was don't look back and don't look down. It was only about twenty feet, but if you asked me I'd say it was a hundred!I just want to make sure that you take a close look at the side of that damn mountain that I had to climb thanks to Rick's sense of adventure.
Damper Falls is the largest waterfall in the north island and only an hour and a half away, so we decided to check it out. You take the forgotten world highway (and that is the actual name of the road) over rolling hills and into the winding mountain roads. Out here the animals run free or have escaped, so need to be especially careful around the turns. Once we got there, we walked through a field where the sheep were grazing and I took the sweetest photo of a lamb. They are tough to get close to, but I got lucky. I was pretty much stalking them and they were quite suspicious of me. All I wanted was a photo, but they thought that I wanted their wool, I'm sure.
Anyway, we got on the trail and walked down to the falls which were incredible. Rick decided to get a different perspective of the falls so we veered off the trail a bit. The detour was a bit slippery so Rick suggested that it would be better to go directly up the side of the mountain to get back on the trail, so I said "sure, if I was a mountain goat!" So up I went parallel with the mountain side grabbing hand fulls of grass to pull myself up. All I could think was don't look back and don't look down. It was only about twenty feet, but if you asked me I'd say it was a hundred!I just want to make sure that you take a close look at the side of that damn mountain that I had to climb thanks to Rick's sense of adventure. 
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This would be a good place for me to try my new bike out look no hands!
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