Flooding Horahora

The campsite Little Waipa is situated on the Horahora road, so named after the village that once stood there, but is now submerged under the waters of Lake Karapiro.

Little Waipa: bliss is isolation

I left K working on her novel for a good part of the day and followed the Waikato trail north along the Horahora road. This was another 12km round trip and brought me as far as Pokaiwhenua Carpark, where I learned that Horahora village and its fully functioning hydroelectric power station were flooded in 1947. The power station was replaced by the much larger Karapiro station.

Lake Karapiro

Running short on supplies towards the end of our stay in NZ, I threw what we did have remaining into a vegetable and lentil curry. This was perfect fare for the slightly cooler evening.