Otaki

The gang went pseudo-camping at Otaki this weekend with some families from work. We were trying to go Friday night to Monday morning but some crazy rain Saturday night had us home by Sunday morning. We were at a campground about 100m from the beach. RC is getting pretty good at catching the waves on the boogie board, it will be learner surfboard time pretty soon. It was dog friendly, which is nice. Although I forgot the rain cover for the tent and had to go back home and get it Friday night, luckily it's only about an hour North.

Pix are here

Whanganui

Went camping this weekend with the GW, ES, SD and ER and families in Whanganui, about 3 hours up the East coast of the North Island. It wasn't really camping as we were staying in a little room at a 'campground' but it was fun. Did some cooking out, swimming in the river and checked out a local park and 'gypsy faire' that happened to be in town. E brought his zodiac so all the kids got a quick ride in the boat. A good time was had by all ... well except for GW, who ran into a concrete bench with his BMW ... and ES, who lost his wedding ring, yeah, other than that (and it was all taken in stride) we all had a pretty good time. There are far too many pictures for this blog, so you can see
them here.

Whanganui Pictures