Hope you both have a great day, lots of Love Graham and Jade xxx
Thursday, 1 May 2008
Monday, 28 April 2008
Happy 2nd Birthday Klawdi!!
Have a great birthday Klawdi, lots of love your big sister and Graham xxxxx
Sunday, 27 April 2008
Dinner with friends...
Caught up with some friends last night. They moved over to NZ 11 weeks ago. I have been chatting to James for sometime on the computer...so it was great to meet again with his partner Lucy and her cousin Katie. Really great night.
Speed Boat Race-Napier
Graham and Sand flie's don't get on!
There was a power boat race from Napier to Bay View yesterday...Westshore ( where we live) is in the middle, so we took our chairs over the road and watched the race. The boats were F1 Powerboats and reached 160k, and we're 12oo HP. Tried to get a good pic...but failed! You get the idea!
Friday, 25 April 2008
Opouahi Bush Reserve-Anzac Day
Views when we first arrived...from the car park!
Bank Holiday...car park was packed!
We did feel like we were in a scene from Jurassic Park...felt strange!
Opouahi Reserve
It's taken a few years, but Graham has finally got me interested in birds!
We visited Opouahu Bush Reserve today, which plays host to the 'Pan Pac Kiwi Creche'. We just went out for a drive,with our walking boots on and a flask of tea and stumbled upon it. As you can see from the pictures...the car park was heaving with it being a bank holiday!!! The reserve is about half an hour from where we live.
Kiwi chicks we're released into the 'creche' in March of this year in the hope that New Zealand can help save the decline of Kiwi's in the country. The creche has an electric fence all around the perimeter...and looked like something resembling Jurassic Park! The walk itself was about an hour and unfortunately we didn't see any kiwi's...not surprising given they are part nocturnal and apparently very secretive...we did however, see lots of other birds and were both 'dive bombed' by Tui's...I kid you not...we we're both crouched down...couldn't get a picture as I was scared I was going to loose my head!!
Nice walk though, beautiful scenery as always, this place truly is magical scenery wise.
Helen and Jon are coming around for dinner this evening, before they head off to the Coromandel Peninsula for a week.
Flax
This week I was given some hand weaved flax from a lady at work. She had made some flowers out of the flax at a local playgroup and I had commented on how lovely they were. A day later, she gave me a bunch of flowers she had made me...
Wednesday, 23 April 2008
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