hello from whitianga

just stopped here on the way back from hot water beach, but i don’t have any of my photos or my memory stick reader with me. the place we are staying at in whangapoa is out of control beautiful. the water is a bit cold but i jumped in and bodysurfed a little. the air is warm, the place is like paradise, and yesterday steen’s friend bret came up from auckland with his surfcasting pole and we did a bit of fishing off the rocks. today he went back to town for a callback on the power rangers. i have a whole bunch of pictures, and a little web page ready to upload on the ibook back at the place we’re staying. (no phone at our beach bach (pronounced batch and meaning a summer beach house).
i spent some time yesterday in an isolated cove accessible only by rock climbing around a point, and i now know how the sailors of the bounty must have felt about leaving tahiti.