Weekend rally at Wanganui

If we can, we like to travel up a day early for a weekend caravan club rally.  So we packed up and drove the 110kms to Wanganui on Thursday.  For part of the trip we were slowed up with a house being moved along.  The width of the house was encroaching on the other side of the road, and approaching cars had to be stopped and parked up off the road to allow the house to continue on it’s way.

Eventually we made it to Wanganui and drove across the intriguing Dublin Street Bridge, one of several spanning the Wanganui River.  Dublin Street Bridge is intriguing to me, looking like it has been made from meccano pieces.

Then it wasn’t too far up Somme Parade and we arrived at Wanganui River Top 10 Holiday Park.  We were the first of our group to arrive, got settled on site in time for lunch.

This is a nice camp ground, well maintained and lovely clean ablution blocks.  Happy birds chirped and fluttered around in the aviary.

And what's this?  Someone had constructed a large moa out of left over branches – very well done, I thought.  Moas were large flightless birds (about as big as an ostrich) and were hunted to extinction over 500 years ago

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The early-birds, four vans, were all on site in time for 4zees, with the balance to arrive on Friday.  And just because we could, we pooled cars and went out for dinner at the Wanganui East Club, a most enjoyable meal it was too.

The rally officially starts on Friday, so we will have to wait and see that Bill and Val have organised for us.  Whatever it is, it’s sure to be interesting.  Looks like the weather will remain fine for the weekend, so that is always a bonus.