Stranger in the reserve
I had plans for the morning, a drive to a local reserveI waited for my wife to leave for work and then quickly showered and pulled on my loose pair of sweatpants, a t-shirt and shoes and headed out. I had told her I was just going to work in the orchard that day, and maybe later I would. But I had made other plans for that morning. I stopped for a cup of coffee and then took the fifteen-minute drive up to the arranged meeting place. It was a bush reserve near Te Aroha at the...