I remember staying in the cottage with my grandparents, who were employed as Rangers for the Park. We would drive down from Auckland to stay with Nana and poppa. I was a beautiful old building with magnificent rose gardens and lovelly old world charm.I remember going up the Nikua track to the top pools sitting in the nail box on the back of Poppas Honda 50 motor bike, and looking at the glow worms in the banks on the side of the tracks. Then DOC arrived, and bulldozed the whole thing, the rose gardens the lot, and put in new sterile buildings. It was a very sad thing to see.