Holiday Nooks.

New Zealand Illustrated Magazine, 1 June 1901, Page 713

Holiday Nooks.

A PERFECT holiday should bo spent, " far from the madding crowd." Exclusion trains and steamers, with thoir lmrry and hu.stlo and jostle, should be carefully avoided. Sock with a few choice spirits some of the- lovely nooks suggested by the accompanying illustrations. Get into the heart of the country and pitch your tent

by the calm waters of some lake, whereat break of dayyoa can aeo the sun rise majestically over the I'ugged mountain peaks as represented in the heading of this page. Or choose your camp under the spreading branches of the mighty denizens of any typical piece of primeval forest, with its indescribably fascinating and delicately mingled scents of loaf mould, and tree blossom. The wild luxuriance of the vegitation and the joyful song of the wild birds flitting hither and thither in the leafy shades will remind you that for the nonce you are as gloriously free as they are

from all the manifold cares and worries inseparable from civilization. You hear the the music of the fern fringed creek, ever to

be found wandering at its own sweet will through the wild depths of the forest, at times a mere murmuring rill, and at others of sufficient proportions to allow you to pull a boat up its pleasant reaches. Choose a moonlight night for this if possible, and with leisurely strokes propel your craft through the translucent waters on which the bright beams above have printed an accurate

reproduction of the arched foliage overhead. The ever-present ci'eeks serve also another purpose. In their somnolent depths glides

the slim eel, greedy for the bait, or perchance that speckled importation, the dainty trout. If so, so much the better for those of the party whose place it is to combine capital sport with the duty of providing the camp with ever welcome delicacies of diet. In another illustration a party has been out for a day's deep-sea fishing, and are

oavi'ying their haul bodily in the dinghy up across the shining sands to their camp, which, for the convenience of their special sport, they have pitched in one of the many bays that are to be found along the coast, and team with schnapper, kawhia, flounder, and a variety of other members of the finny tribe, affording excellent sport.