Highlights of our four day camping adventure on Urupukapuka Island: Seeing dolphins, orcas, sting rays in Urupukapuka Bay. Kai now asks what’s in the water before he goes in. Fair enough, I guess. Eating a crazy seafood banquet thanks to Rachel and Shonty’s friends. It included red snapper, kingfish, crayfish (that big lobster-like thing that […]
Monthly Archives: December 2013
Yesterday our beach adventure to Oke Bay was cut short when the shoeless wonder (my nephew Vinnie) almost ripped off his big toe nail on a boogie board. I should point out that shoes wouldn’t have saved him in this situation. Today, after an almost full recovery (toe nail dangling precariously), we hit the beach […]
For an adventure on my birthday, I took Kai and my two nephews on a pirating adventure — at least that’s how I sold it. We walked from Haruru Falls (where Rachel and Shonty live) to Paihia on the Waitangi Track, a 6-kilometre trail through a mangrove swamp and forests. My tough little nephew Vinnie […]