another rainbowy day

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the great thing about showery weather is the rainbow potential

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this morning church was run by the teenagers which made for a jolly start to the day.

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then this afternoon we decided to dodge the showers and headed over to Long Bay

 

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we dressed for the worst of the weather, but actually it was fine.

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the girls had to take their shoes off to go through a river quite near the beginning of the walk (jane and i found a safe way through). 

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here they are reshodding on a rock

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we always see some nice birds flapping about, and today we saw this heron type thing (i think it’s a white face) and there was a nice king fisher on an electricity wire as well.

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there were some quite amazing rainbows

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we walked round a couple of bays but the tide was coming in

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and the rocks were slippery, so we came back over the cliff paths

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which were really slippery because of the mud and rain

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here’s a cow

 

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this evening we watched a family video (during which jane and i fell asleep) then the girls did a bit of skyping

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and here’s a cool little spider we had in the house earlier.  he’s a jumping spider

i hope you don’t mind me showing you all these spiders !  our house isn’t full of them, it’s just i find them interesting when they come along as they are new.  don’t let it put you off visiting !  Nothing features is dangerous (other than the crocodile yesterday but he doesn’t live at our house)