We were chatting about the past experience that we had for hitchhiking while we point out thumb out. Few minutes later, a big truck past by and I saw the truck driver wave his hand to us, the truck then stopped a meter in front. He wanted to give us a ride. What a coincidence! We were just thought about we haven’t hitchhike big truck & police car. We needed to climb up to the passenger seats. The driver told us he is coming all the way from Auckland and he can only drop us at the junction to Papamoa beach. After we were dropped at the junction, we managed to hitchhike another lady to give us to a ride to Fashion Island shopping center.
We're on a truck
Fashion Island
Library
Park in front of Papamoa BeachWe spent our time to shop around, visit to the library, and at the beach. The beach is nice, we saw people surfing, play water, kissing on the water….
Before the dusk is coming, we decided to go to Papamoa hill to watch sunset just like what our friends did last night. They went up to the hill a day before and they told us the sunset is beautiful there. Again, we hitchhike another car to the foot of the hill, but we can’t see the direction to get up to the hill. Hence, we went to ask a guy in a farm house. The man told us if we follow the normal way to get up to the hill, we won’t be able to watch the sunset because by that time it’s already become dark. He taught us to take a short cut to climb up to the hill from another direction by cutting path from a farm. We thought is easier and can shorter our time to get up to the hill, so we started to head to the direction he told us. We walked across a farm, jump over the fence, and climb up to the hill.
this is where we climb up the hill by using our both feet & hand
After climb up to the hill, we found that there is no any wind direction indicator we suppose to see on top of the hill. It looks like there are rolling hills here whereas we were only on top of one of the hill. It is getting dark, we have to find our way out. We can’t return to the way we climbed up due to it’s hard and dangerous if we use the same way down. We got no choice but have to move to another top.
The sunset is beautiful, but we have no mood to watch anymore.....
Finally, we found the indicator and we saw a sign to the summit and also saw the sign of carpark at summit. But too bad, we can’t see the path to get down to the carpark after the small summit. It was dark and we can’t see any path to go down the hill. We tried to call our friends who went up to the hill before to ask the direction. But again too bad, they can’t give us a clear direction. Hence, I asked them to seek help from others. We were terrified as the place getting darker and we were frozen.
We found the wind direction indicator
freezing, but still can smile... : )My phone rang while we were searching for the way down. It was call from cop. Our friend had sought help from 911. The cop asked for our direction, so I described to him about our surrounding. But it seems like they don’t really familiar with the surrounding here, they called me for a few times to locate us. We were waited there for quite some time, we both felt very hungry and freezing. It was very windy up the hill but luckily it’s a moonlight night. We were both not wearing warm enough. There were times when helicopter hovered over the hill and inching away, we thought they were searching for us.
It's a moonlight night.After waited for an hours, until we became frozen stiff, we saw the beam from the car headlight. Hooray! They found us. The cops can’t find us due to there are too many hillside here; hence, they seek help from a farmer live at the foot of the mountain. We were saved by the NZ cops. Finally we were successfully hitchhike the police car.
We were saved!It was another unforgettable day for me; we both learnt a good lesson for such a thrilling experience. There is so many unpredictable things that you never think of will happen in nz.
****有惊无险的一天****
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