Mount Taranaki is supposedly an almost perfect cone shaped volcano, made more impressive as it stands alone on flat coastal land. That’s also the reason it’s normally covered in clouds, and as the tourist information lady said: if you see it, photograph it as it’ll be gone again soon.
We were going to do some walks around the mountain, but just counted ourselves lucky that we did manage to catch half of the mountain peeking out from behind a cloud for a few seconds. As you’d expect, when we were about 75km up the road taking sunset photos the mountain was there in the background in it’s full glory without a cloud to be seen!