It is now the end of the first month of 2012. I have been out of internet circulation at Waipatiki, a beautiful beach north of Napier. We have a place there with no phone, so internet waits until we are in town. We spent all summer there but are now back at home, as I [...]

Over Xmas my family gathered to spend their first summer at the new family bach at a small beach in Hawkes Bay. One of the things we did, in teams, was to build sandcastle sculptures of a creature found in the sea. My daughter Kate and I did Tangaroa, god of the sea. However we [...]