Wednesday - Museum, Kaipara Gardens and Waitoki Chocolates
Wednesday 10th October
Helensville Museum
We set off for the Kaipara Gardens and Sculptures (not the Gibbs farm) and on the way passed the helensville Museum saw lots of cars parked out side which surprised us because we had read on the sign on Monday that it was going to closed on the second Wednesday of each month. Mary-Ann was a bit doubtful. We thought it might be a funeral as there was a flag flying at half mast, but when I went in through the gate all the doors were open and I could see people inside looking at the exhibits. I met John Smith who turned out to be the president of the Museum Society of Volunteers. He said, "Bring your wife round (this was her expedition after all) and I will show you round. So I scrambled back to the car, got Mary-Ann, introduced her to John and we were off on our guided tour - couldn't have been better!
Here are Mary-Ann and John outside the Old Court House:
The whole area is really well looked after. This is looking down passed the Hedley Cottage to the Museum proper.
This a photo of Issac McLeod and his wife, one of the families that Mary-Ann is interested in:
From here we drove on to the Kaipara Gardens and had lunch in the little cafe. We had thought of doing the tour of their sculpture garden, but it was going to cost $20 and we weren't that desperate!
From there we headed back to Helensville but turned off to Waitoki to the Swiss chocolate lady. Here is the lovely little shop. She was really nice and had a great selection of unusual chocolates
Here is the "Chocolate Kitchen" beside it. We weren't allowed in there.
Helensville Museum
We set off for the Kaipara Gardens and Sculptures (not the Gibbs farm) and on the way passed the helensville Museum saw lots of cars parked out side which surprised us because we had read on the sign on Monday that it was going to closed on the second Wednesday of each month. Mary-Ann was a bit doubtful. We thought it might be a funeral as there was a flag flying at half mast, but when I went in through the gate all the doors were open and I could see people inside looking at the exhibits. I met John Smith who turned out to be the president of the Museum Society of Volunteers. He said, "Bring your wife round (this was her expedition after all) and I will show you round. So I scrambled back to the car, got Mary-Ann, introduced her to John and we were off on our guided tour - couldn't have been better!
Here are Mary-Ann and John outside the Old Court House:
The whole area is really well looked after. This is looking down passed the Hedley Cottage to the Museum proper.
This a photo of Issac McLeod and his wife, one of the families that Mary-Ann is interested in:
From here we drove on to the Kaipara Gardens and had lunch in the little cafe. We had thought of doing the tour of their sculpture garden, but it was going to cost $20 and we weren't that desperate!
From there we headed back to Helensville but turned off to Waitoki to the Swiss chocolate lady. Here is the lovely little shop. She was really nice and had a great selection of unusual chocolates
Here is the "Chocolate Kitchen" beside it. We weren't allowed in there.
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