Otanewainuku.....

We jumped in the car after swimming this morning, got an ice-cream (with a flake) at McD's, punched our destination into the GPS and then drove. We had a bit of excitement in chatting with a man whose ute was upside down in a ditch (he didn't want any help 'cos his mate was coming), and then we rendezvous'edwith Colleen, Su-an and their kiddos:


Like Kate's D18 on our Mount walk one day, there were some interesting choices in bush-walk footwear - pink jandals through to riding boots:


A11 had the camera for some of the walk and took some quite cool shots, here's a few of them:



We saw a few of these cute Miromiro (North Island Tomtit) on our walk:


Then we hooned off to Colleen's place for lunch and some afternoon excitement. Here's the smoochiest cow that side of the Black Stump:


Some of the terrain on Colleen's "gentle walk" (that's L5):


Leah was the taxi-driver for the afternoon, much to everyone's delight:



L10 decided to have a go on a *real* bike, *by herself*!:


Sometimes, she surprises me, she'll give anything a go:


H8 had a go also:


But she wasn't quite so successful, lol! No harm done, Colleen assures me - to the bike (or H8):


L5 was out of luck, I couldn't bring myself to let him have a *real* blat:


This was H8's preferred method of transport for the trip back: