Week 1 - Day 6 - Sun & Surf

What a beautiful day today. The children have started their two week school holiday and get to enjoy a sunny Saturday.

These lilies are found growing everywhere. In gardens, on hillsides and in riverbeds.

Alan and Peter drove in and about town this morning. I walked to town.

I walked across the bridge from the town to the beaches. The tide was out so I enjoyed quite a walk down the beach towards the sea. Raglan is situated in a bay, which is quite far from the open sea. You could see white caps in the distance, but the water around me was quite calm. Across the bay you can see the limestone cliffs. In good weather they kayack over.

This is my favourite cottage in Raglan!

I met a volunteer fisheries officer on my beach walk. He was scouting out the bay for illegal fishing. Apparently these bays are protected as there is a species of miniature dolphins that can be found in the area.

I found the boys in town. We went to the grand hotel for coffee, then we drove out the coast road once again to Manua Bay. The surf was 4 to 6 meters in height, which was unfortunately too high for the surfers. Usually they surf when the waves are a maximum of 2 to 4 meters. Of course we went right down onto the rocks to check out the surf, Peter stayed back to take photos. It was beautiful.

After a quick trip home for lunch, we came back in the afternoon to the surfer's education centre.

Here on Ngarunui Beach, part of the Wainui Reserve, the surfers were starting to arrive. Very few attempted surfing as the surf remained too high. We spent time on the beach walking and enjoying the view.