The summer here was unbelievable. We decided to take every opportunity to see more of NZ (en-zed). We spent the weekend (a while back) in Whakatane visiting our friends, Christine and Ramon, who moved down there from Auckland to open a cafe. It's a small beautiful little beach village/town which you can see here in the background. Praise God Ramon surfs - he took me out and I finally got to enjoy some nice waves (first time in NZ).
Here's a map
We did a lot of exploring in the area. We drove about an hour to this logging town, Kawerau. From there we hopped on this logging road for about 3omin to this hike along the river to a waterfall. This was a beautiful Sat. afternoon and we were the only people there.
The waterfall was quite cool - didn't get in close enough for it to be spectacular b/c we had to get back and meet Ramon and Christine for dinner.
This is the beach at Mt. Maunganui. We had been here last year and wanted to stop in again on our way back home. This place is magical. Something about the light here is different. It's beautiful. This photo is cool (if I do say so myself). the sky, ocean, beach and lawn make a great contrast; the two diagonals in the middle of the pic are parallel; the breaking wave adds an additional white/emerald line plus some motion/energy. I'd rather the tanker not be in the shot.
This is an even better photo of same beach.
Earlier in the vacation Chloe and I took a walk on the beach at Whakatane. Kim noticed the nice reflection we made.
At some point Kim and I got tired and sent Chloe on ahead. She quickly befriended a dog and his master.
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