Thursday – tawharanui and various

another day another load of adventures

starting with a massive fat kauri near warkworth (north auckland)

then matakana for some browsing round arty shops

followed by a trip to a local pottery place

and some lunch.  they didn’t have anything i could eat and i wasn’t very well (at all) prepared so could only each chips

the olds had something more decent though 🙂

then it was off to our main destination – tawharanui 

that’s not us on the surfboard (today at least)

there were various natures to be seen

here are the blokes

we didn’t stick around for the rabbit shooting

on the way back we stopped at charlie’s ice cream shop which sells fantastic ice cream.  we had coffees.

we drove back the scenic route and stopped to look at Orewa beach

the girls had school today whilst jane did various domestic stuff.

esther had her first orchestra practice.  she was very pleased to discover she’s a first violin.  we picked her up from school then drove back home for dinner before heading back out again to watch then pick up kezia from her swimming lesson

 

so that’s that.