Mount Taranaki is the iconic images of Taranaki and is visible throughout the region. When the clouds aren't there. Or the rain. Or both. So when the sun shined upon Stratford this morning, there was only one thing to do - and that was take the camera out for a walk.
This is the view of Mount Taranaki from King Edward Park in
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Mark Sukhija is a travel and wine blogger, photographer, tourism researcher, hat-touting, white-shirt-wearing, New Zealand fantatic and eclipse chaser. Aside from at least annual visits to New Zealand, Mark has seen eclipses in South Australia (2002), Libya (2006), China (2009) and Queensland (2012). After twelve years in Switzerland, Mark moved back to London in 2012. You can follow Mark on Twitter or Facebook