Thursday 15th January- A little late this morning

Tokerau Beach

Somehow we completely overslept and Jennifer woke me up with a cup of tea asking, do you know what time it is? It’s almost eleven o’clock she said.

We had planned to forgo our walk on Taipa beach this morning and visit several other beaches and walk there. So after a slow breakfast we headed off and then realised we were getting low on petrol and needed to go to Awanui to the BP station. This was good as it meant a technical stop was required on leaving the petrol station at the ice cream shop thirty yards away.

Finally we made it to Tokerau Beach which was devoid of humans and we walked along the beach for about a mile and half in each direction, and only saw one person. Although it was around two pm it was not too hot. We then headed off to Rangiputa, which is further around the coast and what a lovely place this turned out to be. We would like to rent a house here, it has a lovely bay and views and just round the corner from the village is an even nicer little bay which would be great for swimming.

Rangiputa seaside village

It was time for a cup of tea and so hoped to find the café at the Karikari Winery open but it closed at three thirty pm and it was now past four. We did find a little café but it did not look clean and the people behind the counter looked even less clean than the café.

So we headed back to Taipa and stopped in the bakery and purchased two nice chunks of carrot cake which we demolished with a cup of tea on the balcony.

Rangputa Beach

This had been a very pleasant afternoon indeed and so a little zizz on the balcony before dinner.

TV was not too good last night although we watched Kitchen Nightmares USA with Gordon Ramsey. I wish this guy could keep his hands still, he is worse than the Americans running Italian restaurants in the US of A.

We must get up early tomorrow.

Here's looking at you kid!