beach
driving down 90 mile beach
90 mile beach is in the north of new zealand and as well as being a beach it’s also a main road
so if you’ve got a car and up for a challenge you can drive down it (as long as you keep to the national speed limit of 100km/hr)
here’s a video from inside the bus
and here’s me taking some of the photos above
(some photos by andrew)
sunny sunday afternoon
i know this is the last thing you northern hemisphericals will want to hear, but it’s lovely down here. i tell you not to gloat, but because i’m a brit and love to talk about the weather.
if it’s any consolation it really doesn’t feel christmassy here one little bit !
surfing beach (with not much surf)
absolute poo-sters if you wanted to surf apparently.
wenderholm
it is rather pretty on this wobbly island
biking on the beach
moving to new zealand has provided all sorts of fantastic opportunities which we wouldn’t have had in blighty. like riding bikes on a wide open beach.
no wet or sandy bodies past this point please
i’m not sure how strictly this rule was policed.
fun at the beach
it’s starting to get cold, but that doesn’t stop an afternoon of fun at the beach
hot water beach
a bizarre beach where you dig your own hot water pool at low tide and then sit in the sweltering hot waters naturally coming out of the ground under the sand.
we went there at christmas and i uploaded these photos to the blog in January. but some reason i didn’t actually click to publish the pictures until now. sorry about that.
lovely long bay
not only does it look great on the sandy bits but the rocky bits are quite cool too
crazy paving ?
