The Neighbourhood

It could be worse! :)

 

The gallery (our little front room) is open! Here's the sign at the end of the drive. Mark's doing some beautiful paintings of the beach and the landscape.

 

The lemon on the right is one that you would see in the store in Canada, and the one on the left is one that we got from our friends who manage a farm and grow lemons, oranges, grapefruits, and other citrus fruit. Their farm is almost completely organic, so the lemon didn't have any "steroids", so to say. Steven

Rere River Falls

We visited the Rere Falls and rockslide with my boss's kids this weekend. It was spectacular.

Rere River Rockslide

What a blast!!

Te Kuri Farm Walkway

We did this hike, just outside of Gisborne, on the weekend. Seems all the places to hike around here are straight up and straight down. I realized I'm not in shape for this kind of hiking -- sore knees!!

Tiny car

All Manner of Shops!

Napier trip

This past weekend we took a little trip to Napier. We stayed in a nice cottage situated on a beautiful property and walked about the town for a bit. As you can probably see, Napier is art deco themed. It's a really beautiful town, with about an average of 5 cafes per street. (That's a street on a block.) There must have been about 30 cafes in the downtown area alone.

On Friday, we headed into Napier after arriving at our cottage, which was a little out of town, and walked through a neighborhood built onto the hillside. Such a cool place; reminiscent of a little town in the Italian alps or something. (Does Italy even have alps?)

For dinner on the friday night, we went to a cool little Turkish restaurant [run by actual Turks] and had to sit on the floor. Felt very authentic.

On the Saturday, we walked about town during the day and hit the pools before dinner. Great day.

On Sunday, we went to a Winery and then headed home.

That's the summary of our time there,

Peace out,

~ Carson

 
I truly hope that the clever marketing team from toyota were giving a bit of a talking to after coming up with this snappy vehicle name. "Say Bob, doesn't that sound a bit like something else....hmmm..can't think of it...." (Mark)

 

Beach at Okitu

 

This evening was one of the most dramatic surfs we have seen yet. Beautiful colours and powerful crashing waves.

Okitu Dunes

Found our way to another nearby beach. The sand dunes were a blast. Regina