In the end I just sit on the bonnet of the car with the setting sun on my back and reading my Kerouac book and remembering that Vonnegut quote. There is another ‘less than nothing’ surf, so I just go swimming, sans wetsuit, so a tad chilly I realise.
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The sun is shining, it wouldn’t work if it wasn’t would it? The campsite at the end of the dirt track is a voluntary pay one and apparently closed out of season and is now full of sheep, but the gate is unlocked and anyway I just park on the beach anyhow and I see no one to complain.
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A largely deserted, couple of mile long crescent of golden sand, surrounded by hills of native bush and a barren craggy island just off shore. It was a cool wee track, though full of sheep and cows, who I never quite trust, convinced that one of these days one will charge at me when I’m not looking and cause me all kinds of damage.Īnd I’ve ended up at a place called Anaura bay, recommended to me by a few people since my arrival.
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Outside the town was a 3-hour track to one of the places our dear friend captain Cook landed on one of his first visits here. So I sat in the café, beside the supermarket, opposite the Tolaga information centre (which was empty and was bizarrely playing a tape of Jimi Hendrix live), and supped my latte (they always do good coffee wherever you are) and read my paper and eavesdropped on the conversations of the unemployed mums (sorry, being a mum in no way makes you unemployed, but these one’s were) beside me and silently judging everyone in sight – mostly in positive ways it must be said. Indeed I doubt he was even a real hobo, just employed to look scruffy. They even had a school, and a hobo fishing from the bridge. Must be at least 500 people in one place. Next stop was Tolaga bay – apparently the most populated bit of the east coast. I obliged and threw myself all over the place on my board. The waves were good and the sea was empty. The type of place that’s so beautiful that really no one else should be allowed to see it and definitely shouldn’t be able to put such lovely bachs on.
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Oh wait that’s me…ģ0 mins down the road I’m at Waihau bay. Not like all those miserable twenty something’s bemoaning their lost school and uni days. There’s a Kurt Vonnegut quote with a lot (but never quite right…) truth that the greatest thing in life is to realise you’re happy when you’re happy. I pinched myself again, not to wake from the dream but more to convince myself that I was actually blessed enough to be here. The sky was again all kinds of wonderful colours. As the fog slowly cleared – the fog of sleep that is, it became clear that there were no WW II spitfires in the area, only milk trucks on the road behind me. And then I woke and struggled to reconcile why a WWII spitfire would be strafing an unpopulated bay on the east coast of NZ. And in the dream I was having it made perfect sense. My first memory this morning was that of a WW II spitfire crossing the bay in front of me. Not a place to try spitting into the wind My Jedward hairstyle gives you an idea of the wind you have to deal with. Them and their 15 kids! The son still maintains the current lighthouse and house. The house used to be home for the last keepers of the lighthouse. One night we left the shutters open to have the beam shining in 5 every 20 seconds or so. Lighthouses are of course all automatic these days. Note how fast a shutter speed you need to catch me standing on a board The one I have now is 8ft and is surprisingly easy to stand on. It’s somewhere still in NZ (i think), the last I saw it I think Jason had it, and he’s in Aus now, so maybe it’s doing the rounds! A lovely board but about 2 foot too short for me. I have since discovered that this was largely due to the poorly made purchase that I made in NZ. I’m sure everyone has a pair of these porcelain dogs somewhere in their historyĮven more excitingly, I got a surfboard and we managed to spend 3 days in the water enjoying the surf.
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We were staying, not in the lighthouse but in the little house to right of the idiot’s finger. If you go straight south, you don’t really hit anything till you hit Africa. It’s way out, almost as far south as you can go. My charming Brother and Sister-in-law (AKA Morsies) got us a voucher for our wedding enabling us to stay in one of t hese places. Though that was a whole 2 weeks ago so I’ll try and stay more contemporary. The usual photo taken at arm’s length of me standing somewhere sunny looking smug, with an ocean in the background. T’is holiday season in our house so expect (hopefully) lots of these kind of posts.