A Walk on The Beach at Mount Maunganui

This is the second day that I have intended to read and write blogs and emails and generally catch up.  This is the second day that I have been struck with a massive dose of ARADD.  I have achieved a lot.  I must have because I have been very busy.  To be fair (to myself) I have spent more than a few hours on the telephone and Skype catching up with family and friends and I've been out to town and shopped and had coffee with a friend.  I've done a bit of child transportation.  I've done several hours of ironing whilst watching TV and being on the phone.  Now it's nearly midday and I'm due out for croquet.  But before I go I'm determined to show you some of the results of the walk I had along the beach at Mount Maunganui on Monday morning.

Walking in parts was difficult because of the large number of shells

As large as my hand this Green- lipped Mussel must have been well into its old age

Small Skies

It's Monday night and I'm back home.  I've been staying at the holiday house (small sort of place that sleeps 19 - more if you put up some camp beds!) of croquet friends.  Of course I was with The Girls (Jayne, Colleen and Sandra) who take me away with them when they go off to tournaments.  Well, actually, on this occasion I drove them.  The house is in Mount Maunganui just off the seafront.  It was the perfect retreat for three generations of a family.  Yesterday morning I stood on the first floor balcony and looked out.  What struck me was the fact that I couldn't see the sky.  I'm used to skies.  But I'm also used to electricity.  In this case I think I'll forego the sky and make do with the electricity cables and poles.

Mount Maunganui

When I was in Tauranga a few weeks ago Eclectic Friend and I went for a walk around the Mount Maunganui.  Well actually we didn't go round as we had intended.  A few days previously the torrential rains had caused huge landslips on The Mount and consequentially large areas of the footpath around it  remained impassable.

The Mount Maunganui

One of the eleven large (and numerous small) landslips

Reminds me of Carmel in California

The end of the path

No mincing of words here then

Yes.  That's definitely a landslip

A very pleasant walk when not covered in rubble

Marine Parade from The Mount

OK.  It's a head..  I just had to show you