ABFoz
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- Auckland, New Zealand
- Car Year
- 2005
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- Forester XS
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- 4EAT
Last Thursday, I went toured the Klondyke-Waiuku area as I had to do this escape due to the increased workload after the lockdown, which is still good for the business, but I needed help from Mama Nature to clear my mind up and balance my thoughts. The area was supposed to be part of my Port Waikato tour which got shortened because of the previously broken cheap tyre inflator. There were thunderstorms and I preferred that because I enjoy seeing Mama Nature at work.
Klondyke is home to a Forestry company so the tourer may be squeezing his vehicle amongst logging trucks.
Here is the entrance to the area. The roads were rough, I travelled light and I couldn't speed more than 40 kph so I had to air down to 24 PSI.
Good-looking outcrop - My hammer is at the bottom for scale.
They still managed to keep the native forest untouched in many places.
All lights on for maximum visibility.
The roads were very narrow and there were warnings about oncoming trucks.
The mighty Waikato River, where Auckland is currently getting up to 50% of its freshwater from due to the drought. While Auckland's water reserves were low, Waikato was flooding and the river's level was higher than when I visited it last year.
Lunch time.
Native forest on the left and forestry land at the right-hand-side.
I played around this muddy area. On the left hand side there was more mud! Playing around this area cost me NZD 8.00 to clean the under-chassis using self-wash that uses grey water.
That fence indicates that somebody truly wanted to go OFF-ROAD!!!
I encountered this truck on my way down. The driver and I braked properly. I even managed to turn while heavily braking. Our EBD works well even on unsealed roads. What a good-looking truck.
This was one of the more maintained sections of the road. There were operations in the area so they had to keep the roads as perfect as possible.
They even covered this downed truck as a way to respect its death.
This abandoned house/shed/office was off-limits. I would have wanted to check what's inside.
On the way back, I went to Waiuku Forest but immediately turned around because there wasn't that much to see there.
It is just a tailor-made forest to cover the iron-sand mining operations beside it BUT there is a proper off-road playground in it which is bookable only by organisations. If there is an off-road Subaru club in the region that I am member of, we can book the playable area for maximum fun and satiscfaction.
Klondyke is home to a Forestry company so the tourer may be squeezing his vehicle amongst logging trucks.
Here is the entrance to the area. The roads were rough, I travelled light and I couldn't speed more than 40 kph so I had to air down to 24 PSI.
Good-looking outcrop - My hammer is at the bottom for scale.
They still managed to keep the native forest untouched in many places.
All lights on for maximum visibility.
The roads were very narrow and there were warnings about oncoming trucks.
The mighty Waikato River, where Auckland is currently getting up to 50% of its freshwater from due to the drought. While Auckland's water reserves were low, Waikato was flooding and the river's level was higher than when I visited it last year.
Lunch time.
Native forest on the left and forestry land at the right-hand-side.
I played around this muddy area. On the left hand side there was more mud! Playing around this area cost me NZD 8.00 to clean the under-chassis using self-wash that uses grey water.
That fence indicates that somebody truly wanted to go OFF-ROAD!!!
I encountered this truck on my way down. The driver and I braked properly. I even managed to turn while heavily braking. Our EBD works well even on unsealed roads. What a good-looking truck.
This was one of the more maintained sections of the road. There were operations in the area so they had to keep the roads as perfect as possible.
They even covered this downed truck as a way to respect its death.
This abandoned house/shed/office was off-limits. I would have wanted to check what's inside.
On the way back, I went to Waiuku Forest but immediately turned around because there wasn't that much to see there.
It is just a tailor-made forest to cover the iron-sand mining operations beside it BUT there is a proper off-road playground in it which is bookable only by organisations. If there is an off-road Subaru club in the region that I am member of, we can book the playable area for maximum fun and satiscfaction.
