Hello Again,It's Saturday afternoon here... & about 4am Saturday July 5th for all those sleeping
soundly in the UK before waking up to watch the Williams Sisters battle it out on Centre
Court... Thanks for all the emails... it's always great to receive news from ábroad'....
Please ignore the date/time on these photos... I can't seem to get it off as the camera - it's being very tempremental...
Here goes....
Photos 1 - 4 are from a walk I took yesterday through Awhitu Regional Park... like the
UK's National Parks... it's literally on our doorstep because it's on the other side of the
Kauri Gully, one of the boundaries of Earthtalk... photo 1 is looking towards Earthtalk's shore...
I literally had the whole park to myself & only met up with 3 people as I left the Park...
It's a wonderfully wild place, full of history...Both the AWhitu Peninusula & the park take their name from the pre-eurpoean Maori settlement of Awhitu, which means ýearning'... felt by Hoturoa, the commander of the Tainui canoe (Waka), when he left the districy. The traditional name for the park's location was Kauritutahi, after the single Kauri Tree which stands on the small islet off the park - see photo 3!
In 1878, an English family, called the Brookes, came & settled here via the jetty
- photo 3 - & it was their only lifeline with the outside world because this was considered
'a far flung place' & there were no roads...
It was a blusterery day & after a few showers... out came the rainbow...photo 4
T&C retruned on Thursday & they'veinsisted I had an extra day off this week & a bonus
because I worked so hard whilst they were away.... braving gale force winds, hail & sleet,
fighting my way to their chucks....
I'm busy planning where to go t& visit when we go up to Whangarei, on the far north east coast next Friday, July 11th. I'm going to 'rent' T&C's little Mazda & have a week 'wwoofing'for Rosemary, who owns & runs a Spirituality Centre up there. There's a Festival on over the weekend & one of the things I'm going to is a Hildegard of Bingen Concert. She was a medival Mystic who wrote beautiful music & poetry. Two of T&C's friends are putting on the performance. I was planning on staying up there for two weeks but had an offer of 'house-sitting' a B&B in Auckland, called 'The Big, Blue House' from the 21st July for 7 days... putting breakfast out for guests etc... so after looking it up on the internet I decided to cut short my travels & go there... I'll have access to wi-fi & sky & receive some renumeration too!Okay, more photos to upload & I'm trying to get everything uploaded before my time on the pc runs out....
Lots of love, Suz x
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