tawharanui and tim

our friend andy emailed me last week to say his good friend Tim was visiting Auckland and could we be kind to him

so this morning i picked him up in town and we then drove up to tawharanui

we did some good body boarding.  there were some big strong waves, but they didn’t come very frequently, so lots of bobbing about waiting.  but when they came they were tremendous.

then we went for a walk round the reserve a bit before heading back via the ice cream shop.

then this evening we had barbie burgers which was jolly good.  he lives near twyford and it turned out we’ve got various friends in common through church, school and community connections.  this really is a small world we’re inhabiting

tim’s just taken up geocaching so we gave him a travel bug to put in a UK cache.  here’s the great handover.

and then i drove tim back and now it’s now.

by the way, there’s a good article in the guardian today about the christchurch earth quake.  well worth a read