Discovering jiggle-chunks and other good things in Urenui 10/13/2017 Last week we spent a few days in Urenui, a seaside town 30 minutes north of New Plymouth, in New Zealand’s beautiful Taranaki region. We made some interesting discoveries. We were 100 metres to a gorgeous black sand beach, with boulders to scramble over, sand to write messages on, and smooth stones to hold (and then put back). The beach was book-ended by majestic cliffs and rocky outcrops. 100 metres away from our bach (i.e. small holiday home), 90 degrees to the south, was an estuary. Perfect
Last week we spent a few days in Urenui, a seaside town 30 minutes north of New Plymouth, in New Zealand’s beautiful Taranaki region. We made some interesting discoveries. We were 100 metres to a gorgeous black sand beach, with boulders to scramble over, sand to write messages on, and smooth stones to hold (and then put back). The beach was book-ended by majestic cliffs and rocky outcrops. 100 metres away from our bach (i.e. small holiday home), 90 degrees to the south, was an estuary. Perfect
'Danger' is not my middle name 10/09/2016 This week we decided we needed to spice up the school holidays with an adventure, so we took a trip to the west coast to experience sand-boarding. Our nephew was with us and anticipation was high. We arrived at the most amazing landscape —it felt like we were in a Star Wars film. The kids were expecting pod-racers to zoom around the corner at any moment. The spot for sand-boarding was an incredibly steep hill with a stream right at the bottom. We watched adults and kids hooning down on their
This week we decided we needed to spice up the school holidays with an adventure, so we took a trip to the west coast to experience sand-boarding. Our nephew was with us and anticipation was high. We arrived at the most amazing landscape —it felt like we were in a Star Wars film. The kids were expecting pod-racers to zoom around the corner at any moment. The spot for sand-boarding was an incredibly steep hill with a stream right at the bottom. We watched adults and kids hooning down on their