A walk in the park

I took a 2-hour break today out to a park in Mechanic's Bay, just where Tamaki Drive goes across a little tidal flat.

On the way there, I stopped at the port and watched the men working.

It's kind of a bad photo because I had to stick the camera through the slats of the fence.  The yellow tractors were cool.  They drive up, straddle a shipping container, pull it up to their belly, and then drive off to deposit it somewhere.  The driver, high up in his cab, honked his horn and waved at me.

Across the bay I could see the suburb of North Head, and the peak of Rangitoto island behind that.  Amiri climbed to the top of Rangitoto with us when he was just an 18 week old fetus.

I crossed a bridge to get to the park.  A couple rafts full of kids went by under me.  They all waved; by the time I got my camera out for the snap, only one of them still was.

Then I got to the park and tramped through the nice trees.

Here is a bloom of a pohutukawa tree.  It's called the Christmas tree, since it blooms around Christmastime, and it's, well, red and green.

Here is what a big pohutukawa tree looks like.  It reminds me of a live oak.