Exploration walk across the rocks...

Eloise and I had already decided before we went up that we needed to go and explore the rocks and see where it took us basically, to the bay along the coast a bit.  We were not gone for too long, but we found a few interesting things along the way and took heaps of photos!

Getting over the first of the rocks.. there were lots of oysters to avoid with our hands!

Looking back over the the bach

We found a little seat type thing in a hollowed out rock!!

Just views

Quite a way down from here!

Eloise

Taking photos of each other.. also trying not to fall in (and successfully so!)

My feet dangling from the rocks a couple meters up

Me

We found a tyre buried in the rock/sand and it was jumpable on!!

(There is a video of me actually jumping on it.. just trying to upload it)

Dead crab....

Eloise thinks she's strong.... 

Summer at beach cottage 2014- Day Five

Today was the day when we were originally going to have a super yummy cooked breakfast but by the time we all got up the tide was right in and perfect for swimming.  We scrapped the idea of having a cooked breakfast but because of the perfect swimming time we each had a massive cookie (which apparently had as many calories as a big mac) with a glass of choccy milk and grabbed the togs off the line, putting our beach feat on as we went past the side of the house and ran into the water.  It may be freezing but once you dive under it is awesome! We also got the snorkels out and were all swimming around the rocks finding fish and kina.

Summer at beach cottage 2014- Day One

Over the course of the past week I have been away at a friends beach cottage in Whangarei Heads with them- total of eight.  We left when I finished work on the Sunday after we had packed up the car and done last minute house things ending up leaving around 6pm I think it was.  We drove up to Whangarei and went and found a warehouse to buy two of the kids beachfeet (swimming shoes) and to try and find one some togs… which we never did find.  Afterwards we did some food shopping and went and got KFC for dinner, arriving at the beach cottage quite late at night.

P.S. I have photos- I just have to upload them to my laptop!