A gulp of air for a very quick blog (not long left in NZ... must make most of it!). And how nice it is to gulp air. After a near drowning on the East Cape at Tokomaru Bay, I am happy to be alive! And have a new found respect and love for a roaring ocean. So many adventures by the sea and with water have been had over the last couple of weeks...
watching the waves on the way to the East Cape
kayaking into caves
Jackson's Bay looking toward Great Barrier Island
Mangroves at Colville
Hahei Beach
Cathedral Cove and a man with a big chin looking out to sea
Cook's Beach
"Intelligent Fun for Everyone" at Waiau Waterworks - all sorts of inventions involving inertia and water. My head still spins.
A good distance above sea level on the Pinacle in the Coromandal Forests... But there's been many more aquatic adventures down the River at Loiuse and Ian's where I wwoofed for a week. They have a lovely piece of land, upon which they're building a straw bale house and setting up an environmental education camp for kids. Th land goes down to this lovely river where me and Louise threw caution and clothes to the wind and took a dip one rainy day.
And on a nocturnal visit to the river, I fished for an eel by the light of glowworms. Then me and Ian battled with the eel to skin it (not as easy as Hugh FW makes out I can tell you), and finally enjoyed it battered and fried. Yum.
Here's Lou and Ian's Earth oven which was fired up for pizzas on my last night.
And their straw bale house on the build -
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