Posting by Barb:
If you look up ‘Hick Town’ in the Urban dictionary it describes it as a town with one stop light, most of the inhabitants drive a trucks, cow/horse pastures everywhere and if you are lucky it has 2 convenience stores, a gas station, and a liquor store and one road in and out. 
Well that pretty well describes Hick’s Bay with a few minor differences. A ‘roundabout’ replaces the stop light and there aren’t t any trucks as it is just too expensive to buy in New Zealand. .
Along the way we made many stops taking pictures of the ‘free roaming’ cows and horses. 
To get to the lighthouse we had to run up 750 stairs but it was worth the view of Whangaokeno Island. On our way back to the motel we made a ‘lookout’ view stop. 
And what we saw was a huge centipede inching it’s way past our parked 
car. So out came the cameras and we took plenty of videos and pictures of the not so little critter.