New Plymouth to Inglewood

Wednesday 10th October
After our 2 nights spent at the Fitzroy Golf Club by the beach in New Plymouth we moved just down the road to the Fitzroy Beach Holiday Park as the weather wasn't so  good and we needed to hook up to power, top up with water, empty the grey water and use a washing machine and drier. After the camp ground at the Mount this one was really basic with old, rundown amenities and an electrical circuit that would cut out if more than a washing machine, drier and toaster were all on at the same time! Most of the people there were virtually living there permanently as it is a little cheaper than flatting.
It is in a great position being right by the beach and the walk/cycleway. The shower experience there started off being a little different. I was trying to keep as far away from the mouldy walls as possible so the mould wouldn't attach itself to me and at the same time attempted to get hot water flowing which seemed impossible until I realised the the C stood for hot and the H stood for cold - silly me. At that point I didn't even mind the plastic curtain wrapping itself around my legs as the flow of hot water was truly awesome - good strong shower and no button to push every 10 secs (like the Mt) to keep the flow going!
Yesterday we got our gas bottle retested and filled, and enjoyed walking through the town. Today we realised that our COF had expired so had to make a visit to the Testing Station before we left town - all good.
We are now parked at the picturesque Inglewood Golf Club where we have a nice view of Mount Taranaki. We played a round of golf - very flat and should have been easy but I think I like making things hard! They are going to leave the toilets and showers open for us all night not that we will really need them once we've had the shower we're going for now.
Tomorrow we will wend our way down the road to Stratford.