Sometimes you need to pull over to the side of the road. Especially in New Zealand when you see a lookout sign. Even more so around dawn or dusk. This is an early morning landscape. Looking west towards Raglan from the Valley lookout on State Highway 23. I was driving over the hills east towards Hamilton. Then on to Matamata, the home of Hobbitan for the 8:30am first tour of the day. This meant an early start for the 90 minute drive from my Air BnB in Raglan. This landscape might turn out to be one of my favourites of the day. Certainly my best landscape of the Waikato area of New Zealand’s North Island.