Today I went out in the DOWNPOURING rain to run some errands. This included going to the grocery store to get some food for my tramping trip tomorrow, going to the map center to get a map for the aforementioned trip; going to the mall and buying a caribiner and an ATC to add to my ever-growing climbing gear and stopping in at a woman's house to get some quickdraws which I won in an auction on TradeMe. Those will also be added to the climbing gear collection.
After all of those things were done, I drove out to the Waitakere ranges to check out the Waipu Caves. But I couldn't actually get there because the road was flooded! The farther out I went, the more narrow the road got, and I passed a couple of places where my car got a free car wash from water pouring down off the roadside cliff in a little waterfall. There has been so much rain lately! I could also see little mini mud slides / rock slides. Finally I got to a spot in the road where the amount of water pouring across it caused me to ponder whether my little car could make it through. I watched a couple of other bigger cars go across, but I didn't want to risk it because the water was fairly deep and moving pretty fast, and if it had picked up my car it would have washed me straight into the ocean!
Have a look at the exciting pictures below:
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