the real sunday

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we’d only got two ‘free’ days with our visitors left (jane and the ladies are heading down to rotorua tomorrow for a couple of days), so we decided to make full use of our wet suits by heading up to tawharanui.

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i’ve mentioned tawharanui loads of times here as it’s our favourite beach

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the wind was quite strong today so there were some decent waves

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swellmap.com said they’d be

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it were a bit messy out there …

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despite it being really busy with surfers and boogie boarders there was plenty of space on the beach

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we took it in turns to watch (and play with) the kids in the sea

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i read the paper oblivious to the naked ladies behind me it seems (photo by julie!)

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the littlies made sandcastles when not in the sea

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when we got back katie kindly hosed the cars down as they were both covered in sand and dust from the metal (gravel) road to get to the beach

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here’s yesterday’s dinner and outside eating in case you were wondering

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and here’s where all the photo magic happens

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thanks again for julie and andrew’s photos (i don’t usually have many pictures of me, so i hope you notice i’ve included a few today!)

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what a lovely day.

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back to work for me tomorrow 🙁