Monday, October 01, 2012

Army Bay and the sailing school

Up near Whangapararoa (Maori for 'bay of whales') is the nice beach of Army Bay.  We sat in the soft grass above the sand and had a little lunch and a little look around.

Over to the left was this massively gnarled tree.  I used a similar photo to this as my header image for about ten minutes when I re-started blogging last month.


And to the right there were cliffs.  Because how can you have a beach without cliffs?


And in the middle there were sailboats.


And then the sailboats all came ashore-- it was a sailing school, and we got to watch them up close!

  

3 comments:

Auntie Dianne said...

Thank you Allie for another beautiful beach adventure!

Auntie Dianne said...

Your beach and ocean pictures are beginning to become familiar to me! I can almost imagine being there with the wind blowing in my face and a hardy, har, har as I go sailing along...

That gnarly old tree is quite a picturesque punctuation for such a beautiful though stark setting!

Auntie Kathie said...

Love the video clip and hearing the voices of you all there! Thanks! Amazing luck to have a school right there!!