Early Morning Beach Walk

This morning I woke up at 4.30am.... Yes, that early, and couldn't get back to sleep.  So at 5.40am when I had had enough of lying in my nice comfy warm bed watching the sky I decided to get up and have a shower and throw some clothes on and head out to Browns Bay beach.

Its morning like this where I wish I was back in Orewa and had a the beach a two minute walk away... as it is now a 10minute drive to the closest beach!!

Looking out to Rangitoto Island

North end of the beach

I got out there at 6.30am when it was still pitch black and went for a walk along the beach and took some photos as I went, there were a couple of other people but not many.  The sun rose at 7am and it became a little busier.  Once the sun was right up I went to find the closest supermarket for bread and milk and well... I went to put the bread in the toaster earlier and found it was mouldy. Yuck! And the milk.. well, can't have a coffee without can I?

About 6.45am

Browns Bay

South end of the beach

Browns bay beach at 7.15am

I plan on going into Uni as soon as the library opens at 10am to finish (hopefully) my essay and sheets to do to hand in on Monday.. well that are due Monday.

After work...

On the drive home from work yesterday I pulled over and decided to take a picture of the road ahead of me, the sun was out with bright blue sky and barely any clouds.  This particular road is lined with palm trees which is a common occurrence around Orewa!

Such a beautiful day!

Back on the bike

And so today, it marked the day of my first time back riding my bike- I had no pain in my knee it was so good! I haven't ridden my bike since at least May (when I had the surgery) and so to be back on it as the warmer weather is showing now, getting warmer leading up to summer!

On the way we stopped for lunch, then we saw the damage from the recent storm that passed through which happened to be at its strongest when it is high tide, on a king tide so the sea levels were rather high and took out a lot of the built up sand around the coast, you can see evidence of this all along the Orewa Beach stretch of the coast which is a good few kilometers long (five I think).  There is barriers all up along the beach front and the grass just goes straight down and all the tree roots are showing- that is all that is holding the beach front.  There is still a lot of debris on the beach as well.

I don't have pictures of the South end of the beach where the damage is a lot worse as the height of the sand/grass walls are a lot higher!!!

Even old steps were uncovered... 

This use to be covered in sand...

Saw this mailbox too- very cool!

We then went and got ice-creams...

And Allie got licks too- her treat :-)

Orewa Beach (North End)

These are some photos that I took with the iPad (excuse bad quality) of the North end of Orewa Beach from Arrundel Reserve on Saturday 3 August on my way up to Warkworth.  I love to take pictures especially of landscapes/ scenery- just need to invest in a decent camera some day :)

Looking out the Peninsula (I love this picture!)

Again, out to the Peninsula.

Looking towards Hatfields Beach/ Waiwera way.

Weather and Procrastination

Poor little Nashi Tree getting bashed around in the wind and rain loosing all its leaves.

Both these taken from my bedroom- looks out to the backyard- tincey, and also Orewa North Primary School.

Yes, I like to know whats going on with the weather- I find it rather fascinating (maybe I should change my career direction into being a meteorologist??).

Friday it was a rainy, cold, and yicky day- two jumpers worthy (which is actually pretty normal for me from about May or so).  

Yesterday it was actually a rather nice day until about early afternoon when it decided to turn dark and spit, then back to sunny again by late afternoon.

Woke up this morning to rain pouring down outside my window!  And it has been ever since with high winds and freezing cold for us (10degree temps maybe?) So after sitting reading on the internet on my bed for the last two hours I decided to go eat something and crawl back under my blanket and start my.. ahem.. homework- well Classics internal due tomorrow (3/4 the way through, been at it for a month+).

Ended up procrastinating.. to write this.

Another post also in the works- maybe I should finish that too? Lol.

Oh yeah- it was the school ball last night.  I didn't go.  Not my thing- my money can be better used elsewhere.  I sat up reading for hours on end after planning to go to bed early.  (ended up online reading until 11.30pm.)