Giedre tyttö Ozista

Foggy Surf

This is gannet colony at Muriwai beach.

I checked it out while Kaj was surfing at Muriwai beach... During low tide... With waves up to 3m high... Bad idea...

Obviously I didn't take good care of him, so he fell off the board and sprained his ankle. It doesn't seem too bad, but surfing, walking, running, basically everything is off for us at least for a while... :(

There are warnings everywhere about dangerous rip tides in all Western beaches, but its not all that bad. You just hear/read stories about people barely making it to the shore, being swept away by massive currents, etc. The conditions yesterday were even more interesting because of the fog. I could barely see people some 50 meters away from me. It would have been a miracle if the lifeguards would have noticed a lone surfer carried away from the shore in whitewater...

Its a long weekend here because of Labour day on Monday, but we stayed in Auckland. Kaj sprained his ankle, so we're staying home. Quite bored, I have to say, cooking, browsing the web and reading newspapers. For kiwis, as far as I know, this weekend is the ultimate gardening weekend. The tomatoes have to be planted today - its quite amazing here, just stick anything to the ground and it will grow, nature will take care of it. Its so humid here and the temperatures are pretty moderate most of the year, so everything grows like crazy! I noticed that my potted tomato is about to bloom already!

Summer has yet to come though... We really really really really wait for these 3 weeks to pass soon, so that we can move into our new house and life should start about then. I don't feel like cleaning our deck or windows, planting anything anywhere, basically doing anything to "beautify" our current home. I just can't wait to move!!!

Few more weeks and we should even have our stuff from Finland delivered!!! Aaaaah... Our futon bed... In the new house... A REAL house!