we went to tawharanui today. it’s still our favourite beach and is just an hour’s pleasant drive from home
we went with our friends mara and rodney (who we saw on xmas eve) and it was really good
it was mostly an overcast day with a nice breeze which meant you had to watch the sun
the grown ups took it in turn going out body boarding with the kids, sitting around and going for walks
we introduced them to geocaching
in fact our geocaching finding ended up turning in to a massive walk around slippery rocks and up and down hills. i’m pleased to say i managed it all in my jandals which is surely a right of passage
here’s a lone flowering pohutukawa
and these chaps were playing volleyball. in true kiwi spirit they’d marked out the pitch nicely with shoes
then it was back to the car
and off for ice creams at our favourite ice cream shop on the way back. we arrived just in time and were the last customers served before the people packed up and went home !
here’s some surfing. not sure why youtube makes the first bit of the video go wobbly. that wasn’t in the upload