Tigy’s Blog

So we just got back from a week away in Kuaotunu in the Coromandel. Friends of ours, Dave & Kirsten, very kindly let us use their batch for the week. It was fantastic, so didn’t want to come home!

The weather was pretty good, cold the first few nights but then it warmed up, which is pretty damn lucky for June. I mean who has stolen winter this year? Anyways they can keep it!

Kuaotunu is a pretty small spot about 20km north of Whitianga, about 3hr drive from Auckland. The beach is oh so quiet, with bugger all people there in summer, let alone winter, so we had the place to ourselves. Not a hell of a lot to do there but play outside, go for walks, read books, make sand castles and generally just have a really, really relaxing time.

The kids loved it, being pretty much free to do anything they wanted, except watch TV. Lots of outdoors time and it was really great to see the two of them really start to bond. Their favourite game it dancing to the teletubbies theme song, which if you dont know I could happily give you a quick rendition, as could any of the Hawkes neighbours in Kuaotunu as it tended to get blasted out a few times a day. But as much I would happily drown ‘Tinkywinky’ the kids loved it. Its amazing what a little forced time together can do, plus the absence of other distractions.

As I said, not ready to leave after only 6 days. Maybe it was because I had to drive down to Thames one day to sit an exam, or just that after being so busy for so long it took 5 days to unwind, or maybe its just because it would have been nice to have some more time. I dunno, but I cant wait for a decent holiday now! Beth is still talking about going for tractor rides, and driving the tractor (with a little help from dad). I also think she’d just at the chance to go exploring around the rocks again looking for sea snails and little tiny anemones… although she was a little dissapointed not to see Nemo in any of them… and a little relieved not to see Bruce.

I’ve posted up some holiday snaps if your interested, you can find them by clicking on the picture below: