Today we went across the Kaimai range to the eastern side of the island for our usual winter day out to the Mount on the Pacific coast. We took along one of Louisa's friends and her little sister as well. It started off cool, but that was only the breeze, when we were in a sheltered place it was really warm in the winter sunshine. Louisa got us to stop at the spring on the way over the top as she wanted to fill her drink bottle, and it came in useful later on to give our dog Paddy a drink.
When we got there we got a coffee/hot chocolate while the kids played on the beach and bought a load of hot chips so as we could have a bit of a picnic on the pa site, stuffing them in to bread rolls and having lashings of lemonade and biscuits.
Paddy our miniature Schnauzer had great fun and totally wore himself out (like the rest of us, fresh air and running around on the beach and fishing, climbing rocks etc.) The fishing was unproductive, but we didn't have any proper bait with us so that was hardly surprising. A game of footy on the beach was a bit of a laugh but there were injuries aplenty, so it was a fitting end to the day as the sun was starting to set. A last little visit to the ice cream parlour for waffle cones and thick shakes and we headed back across the darkening hills in to the Waikato.
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