Day 11 - Saturday 17th June - Dargaville continued - Bayly's Beach - Dargaville Museum

 

Day 11 – Saturday 17th June

Dargaville - Bayly's Beach & Dargaville Museum

Bayly’s Beach

It was a foggy, damp and cold morning, but at about 10:00am we set off for Bayly’s Beach about 11kms north. 

By the time we got there, the sun had come out and it was a beautiful calm, blue sunny day. We parked the car at the end of the road ...

 

and walked down the steep path. 

The waves were thundering in all along the length of the beach. It was a huge impressive sea view. 

The headland was equally impressive

Mary-Ann picked up plastic while I gathered “Ram’s Horn” shells from squids.

When we got back up to the car we had a coffee at Sharky's Cafe

Dargaville Museum

On the way back to Dargaville we stopped at the Dargaville Museum way up in the hills on the outskirts of Dargaville. 

with a great view out over the Gum Diggers' Cottages and the Wairoa River:-

It was a very large impressive museum with very well displayed general, Kauri timber milling:

... a big machine for processing Kauri Gum:-

 ... personal items from the early days:-

and  shipping/like the Cutty Sark and ...

... others:-

We had lunch back at the caravan and then went shopping down at CountDown.