I was up in the 'Naki last weekend. The weather was good, and I was able to take some photographs of Mt Taranaki - the cloud piercer. This shot was taken from the top of Paritutu Rock, at New Plymouth.
Mt Taranaki, 2518 metres high, is an active volcano and the striking centrepiece of the Taranaki ring plain. The mountain and its lower slopes, which are covered in sub-tropical rainforest, are protected in a national park.
The navigator Captain James Cook sighted Mt Taranaki on 13th January 1770, during his circumnavigation of New Zealand. In his log he wrote:
"At 5 AM saw for a few Minutes the Top of the peaked Mountain above the Clowds, bearing NE; It is of a prodigious height and its top is cover'd with everlasting snow."
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