Geo-caching

Last Sunday Mandy and I went out to lay the last of my eggs :) A dozen wee plastic eggs that I have hiden on a trail from Hikurangi to Ngunguru - we had done some the week before by ourselves, but on this day we had the boys with us - and it was a beautiful morning. Pics show - rainbow over railway wagons - cool pic Rex took while we were busy being FTF [First to Find] a new geocache at the railway station under these historic trees - planted by an earlier PM.

Sandy Bay was home of 'Cache a Wave' and it was gorgeous - hidden in this amazing pohutukawa tree - Rex and Andy went up to the bach behind and chatted to the bloke there - the bach had been in the family since 60s and they had an amazing visitors book.

Also placed cache at Matapouri - gorgeous, gorgeous beach :)

Final egg placed under concrete remains at Ngunguru - and then I had to get them all published - this was done super quick and that very afternoon some fellow cachers were out looking :)

The ducks were at a final cache we were looking for - did think it a good place to hide one but someone else had had same great idea - the trip around from town back to town now has heaps of caches within easy grabbing distance of the road - which seems much easier during winter months.

Term 2 Week 11

Last week of term - I did teach on Monday :)
Not feeling too good - stuffed up with head cold so quite glad it's been a quieter week.
Had a couple of days in Auckland with Mandy - also managed to catch up with Daniel, Tania and Skyla and had dinner with Jess at 'Delicious' - and it was!! Very delicious Italian place.
Went to Harry Potter movie and found a few - 24 - geocaches.
Stitching tonight with the girls - hmmmm - looks like I'll be knitting again!!

Weekend

Well it's the weekend again - actually it's nearly over again!!
Had a busy week - 4 days of work you know!! AND I had to be Mrs President for Rex's Rotary!! He is now having his 'turn' or is that 'term' as President of Whangarei Rotary Club!! I aim to support form the back-benches :)

Had 2 days at Kamo and 2 at Hikurangi - quite nice to be back there and giving Bruce some cheek - I did remember to thank him for being the reason for my much better lifestyle!! Hate to think what I'd be like if I'd stayed working out there - which I could have done if he wasn't such a ... hmmm I shall refrain from publishing my thoughts on that one - he and I both know!!
Added bonus was having the Minstrel there for 1 1/2 hours - great being paid to be entertained I must say - I quite like The Minstrel's quick sense of wit and humour - and he is an ex-Taihapian as well so we must be practically related!!

Managed to finish a stripey jumper for our Skyla to go under her cute overalls my friend Claire Spicer made - will take a pic and try to remember to post it - better would be with Skyla in the outfit!!

Yesterday Mandy and I headed out to do some caching - made hard work of 2 quite simple-in-the-end finds, gave a puzzling one a miss as venue being used and then headed out to lay some of my caches - put one in the historic oak tress by our old house and then did the start of my 'Egg Trail' - am laying 12 eggs around for people to find.... got 8 done so have to wait til next weekend to get them finished - blast...

Mandy starts her radiation treatment this week so I'm planning to go down and keep her company - wonder what we'll do ...????

Pammy came for dinner last night - with pics of dear wee Isobel Jane - her 2nd grandie - and sister to Georgia Rose - Rach and Marc did very well - and sounds like labour was really quick - hard to believe that before Isobel was a day old she's back home sleeping in her own bed while rest of the family have dinner together - long may it last :) Makes me keen for our next baby!!

Today we went out for lunch with Margaret and Garry - if I was really into the way of blogging I'd have pic of lunch I know - had a BLAT - asked them to leave off the dressing and put it on the side - they put some on the side and some in the BLAT - it was toooooo big - 3 great hunks of bread and minimal filling - although generous with bacon.... anyway I felt a bit dodgy after it so we had to cut the party short and head home - I feel sorry for the rest of the team - but guess I'm lucky they put up with me!! Back to 'poached eggs' when I go out!!

My Mum is in hospital - has had gall bladder problems - was on waiting list but sounds like she'll be moved up the pecking order and have gall bladder out sooner rather than later - which sounds good to me - then she'll just need to get better. Luckily my sister Louise is able to be with her and other sister, Margot, is going down later in week. I would go - but 3 of us would be overkill :)

Brick Bay 3

Now as well as lunch you see we did this 2km walk - didn't feel like that - is indeed a nice wander - if it's dry - bit wet underfoot today and I managed to slip on my bum :(

The 'nest' sculpture was about as big as a sink - if a sink was round... Would look very cute with a baby sitting in it...


After lunch we went down to check out the end of the road - there used to be a Christian Youth Camp here but now there's some very 'up-market' retirement/apartment living style places...

Further on we wandered along this path and found a cache - so that was great. The bay is called 'Whisper Bay' and it would be a fun place for toddlers in the summer as very shallow - tide was out and still there were lovely beach 'puddles' that I can imagine Skyla would have great fun in. Today there were just a couple of windsurfers.

Next we went further down the peninsula toward Snells Beach to see the new school that's recently opened here - we were interested as a few years ago Rex had thought about applying to be foundation Principal - there was just a paddock here when we last looked - school now is all go and looks very nice and modern. Doesn't sound like they've reached their projected roll yet though - the area may be too expensive for young families??

Then we headed back home :)

Brick Bay Sculptures

The first 2 of these swirled around in the wind/breeze - would be nice to watch - bit like watching a fire or watching water - kinda restful :) The elephants and bright 'blocks' are all flat but cleverly painted for 3-D effect.

Brick Bay

Had a lovely day today - headed off to Brick Bay winery down Snells Beach way - met up with Jessie and Hayden for lunch - our 'shout' for his birthday tomorrow. Yummy platters and then we went for the walk around the sculpture trail - was pretty muddy underfoot - was very envious of Jess's new purple gumboots so think I'll have to go and buy some myself - will be so handy for geocaching too - ha ha. Am sharing some pics of some of the scultures - many of which are for sale - prices seemed to range from $1800 to $60,000.00 for the 3 big 'pinwheels' - I loved the ones that slowly moved in the breeze - and the corrugated swirly things on one of the lakes - but I didn't like them enough to get out the credit card!! Have uploaded 5 pics so will see if I can do more for you to enjoy...