About 10 minutes drive from our house is Wilson’s Dam:

created as a water supply reservoir for [Ruakākā] and now regularly stocked by Fish and Game with both rainbow and brown trout.

I don't fish but visited to see if there were any birds around. There weren't really.

It was a gorgeous spot though and would be a wonderful place to take a book and a picnic and while away some time.

Scrub your boots on the way in, to help prevent the spread of diseases that harm kauri trees.

Kauri boot scrub station with brushes and disinfectant.
Grass beside a small part of the lake with hills covered in bush in the background.
A hill beside the lake covered in dense bush.