A Castle and Two Trigs

Yesterday Dof, Sus, Missie and I went for a wander up the Razorback Track to visit Humphries Castle, yes this is on Mount Taranaki if you are wondering or confused hehe.  Along the way we stopped off at one of the trigs I hadn't been to yet, and we were lucky enough to have a nice view of the mountain behind it, I say lucky enough as the mountain was playing hide and seek all day.  When we got to the top of the razorback we decided not to go right up to the castle as it was so windy and I almost got blowed away.  Instead we just wandered back to Spartz (our car) via the RTM Track to Holly Hut Track and then Veronica Loop.

After the required stop at the cafe for coffee and chips (and cake this time as well, yum yum), we headed off to the Stratford Plateau to visit another trig so we could mark two off :) on the way to the Plateau we stopped and visited the swamp which had no mountain view but did have water in it so it looked like maybe it was a swamp, Dof says it doesn't always have water in it.  The trig also didn't have a mountain view but that was ok with me as I took the photo facing the other direction so you would have views looking down the mountain, not that that is visible either though lol you get cloud instead :)

 At the monument

 Trig one, with the mountain behind :)

 Humphries Castle from below

 Mountain :D

 Swamp with the mountain behind the clouds somewhere

 Walk to the swamp

Trig two, looking down the mountain...