michanna

Well, today I decided that I would head out and see the beach despite the rain. I left the house with no shoes and few clothes in the misting rain, just started strolling along the beach, not really minding the wet. I got lost in thought and decided to go further than planned, ending up at the far end of the beach. I found some really interesting shells and watched the surfers for a while, but still no Moko.

By this time, I was about an hour away from home. What I didn’t count on was the sun coming out. Now I am lightly roasted. The worst place though is the back of my legs, where I probably wouldn’t have put any sunscreen even if I had carried it with me!

Once I got back, I was sweaty and clammy and my new bathing suit still hadn’t tasted salt, so I set out to the beach with my towel. The beach here is relatively shallow for quite a ways out, but the waves are really interesting. They pull in and pull out with massive force and the water level, if you stand in one spot, will go between chest deep and knee deep depending on the waves. It’s really cool.

I wanted to do a little actual swimming, so I tried to get out past the breakers, but waves taller than you breaking onto the sand are a little intimidating even when you’re standing in knee deep water!

I played around for a little. The sand is very fine and gets churned up a lot by the waves, so I had to clean off a little when I got back, but since the house is so conveniently located, that was no hardship. Then we watched the figure skating back in Canada.

So yeah, good day in the end. My ride to Auckland cancelled on me though and none of my other ride share boards are coming up with anything promising, so I guess I’ll look into buses tomorrow. (People will yell at me if I suggest hitchhiking again.)

Originally published at Teri's NZ Adventures.
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