Happy New Year to you all! Just thought we would show you a few pics of what we have been getting up to over the festive season here on
the Coromandel peninsula! The cute white house with the picket fence has been our home over Christmas and New Year. We are staying in the extension to the right of the photo (with the little balcony on the top floor!) The sunset is the view from the balcony almost every night! Tim and Annette who live in the main h
ouse have been so hospitable to us, even inviting us over for Christmas lunch! Tim is an enforcement officer, which covers various roles including issuing parking tickets, going out t
o investigate complaints of rowdy parties, illegal camping and also 'arresting' any stray dogs found wandering on their own on the beaches or reserves where they are not allowed! He took us out with him a couple of times which was very exciting - driving in a 4WD around hairpin bends on unsealed roads! And we got to see him in action when he had to arrest 2 dogs! Been doing lots of walking t
oo and visited numerous bays and beaches - too many to show you all of them! One of the best ones was Cathedral Cove, named for its shape of course, but our favourite beach was 'New Chums Beach'
, only accessible at low tide when you had to walk across the estuary to find a little track ove
r the headland onto the beach. Hope you like the photo of me and CK (old chums!) posing on New Chums Beach! As for the walks - lots to see and fabulous views again! We did a short w
alk to a viewpoint overlooking Coromandel Town, the Coromandel Coastal Walkway and the beautiful Karangahake Gorge to name just a few. And yes, that tunnel WA
S scary! It was about a kilometer long and part of a walk around the Gorge. Although it had some roof lights they were so dim that you could hardly see your ha
nd in front of your face! Connie was in front of me and she st
opped at one stage and I just slammed right in to her because I couldn't see her - that's how dark it was! Also visited Driving Creek Railway and went on the little train in the photo for an hour's return trip, through forests, several tunnels, over bridges and up to precarious view points, all built by this slightly eccentric, but talented sculptor
and potter who still worked at his studio at the railway site at the age of 75! Anyway, we decided to go for a New Years Day walk today and had a real surprise when we visited Wyuna Bay! Lovely little bay and only about an hour & a half's walk to get there. What should we see high and dry on the beach but Iggle Piggle's boat!! No sign of Iggle Piggle himself (or his blanket!) but it was definitely his boat - we were quite sure! See what you think! (click on the photos to see them bigger!)
Happy New Year to you all! Just thought we would show you a few pics of what we have been getting up to over the festive season here on 
the Coromandel peninsula! The cute white house with the picket fence has been our home over Christmas and New Year. We are staying in the extension to the right of the photo (with the little balcony on the top floor!) The sunset is the view from the balcony almost every night! Tim and Annette who live in the main h
ouse have been so hospitable to us, even inviting us over for Christmas lunch! Tim is an enforcement officer, which covers various roles including issuing parking tickets, going out t
o investigate complaints of rowdy parties, illegal camping and also 'arresting' any stray dogs found wandering on their own on the beaches or reserves where they are not allowed! He took us out with him a couple of times which was very exciting - driving in a 4WD around hairpin bends on unsealed roads! And we got to see him in action when he had to arrest 2 dogs! Been doing lots of walking t
oo and visited numerous bays and beaches - too many to show you all of them! One of the best ones was Cathedral Cove, named for its shape of course, but our favourite beach was 'New Chums Beach'
, only accessible at low tide when you had to walk across the estuary to find a little track ove
r the headland onto the beach. Hope you like the photo of me and CK (old chums!) posing on New Chums Beach! As for the walks - lots to see and fabulous views again! We did a short w
alk to a viewpoint overlooking Coromandel Town, the Coromandel Coastal Walkway and the beautiful Karangahake Gorge to name just a few. And yes, that tunnel WA
S scary! It was about a kilometer long and part of a walk around the Gorge. Although it had some roof lights they were so dim that you could hardly see your ha
nd in front of your face! Connie was in front of me and she st
opped at one stage and I just slammed right in to her because I couldn't see her - that's how dark it was! Also visited Driving Creek Railway and went on the little train in the photo for an hour's return trip, through forests, several tunnels, over bridges and up to precarious view points, all built by this slightly eccentric, but talented sculptor 
and potter who still worked at his studio at the railway site at the age of 75! Anyway, we decided to go for a New Years Day walk today and had a real surprise when we visited Wyuna Bay! Lovely little bay and only about an hour & a half's walk to get there. What should we see high and dry on the beach but Iggle Piggle's boat!! No sign of Iggle Piggle himself (or his blanket!) but it was definitely his boat - we were quite sure! See what you think! (click on the photos to see them bigger!)
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Oh bugger, so sorry to hear you are suffering such hardship, I'll ring round and see if we can organise a rescue party shall I?????
Anyway havn't had much time to research how to use thhis blog stuff, so hope you will both forgive me whilst I send a wee message to David and Ruth (what a ing liberty I know but needs must)
So thank you Ruth and David for your lovely card at Christmas, you will have to let me know how old Emma is now, may have some more... sorry I should remember how old she is, it is not like Connie talks about her so much! but regretabbly since having child number two my brain has gone to mush! Sorry to hear the wee girl has got chicken pox, it is not great is it - both my two went down with it last year, 2 weeks apart, although Macy came through it pretty unscathed, however jack had a severe case and has the dinks in his face to prove it - i hope Emma has a mild case - must seem like it is one thing after another - a feeling I know only too well - would like to tell you it gets easier but it doesn't - it is just your time management that improves slightly!!! and then you give up trying to be super mum/dad/domestic godess completely. Anyway, hopefully not too long before she will be back on both legs and spot free - god bless you both, hope you are surviving it with a laugh or two it is the only way. Take care.
Back to you then Conch - I'll send you a normal e-mail reply to your last letter - don't want to amuse all your followers with my lifestory on air, not unless I can get it published and allow me to give up my crap job!
Love Bridge and Antz
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