September 15, 2007
Summer again?!?!
Yeaaaah! Yeaaaah! Yeaaah! Yah! We just had the first day of balmy sunny summery weather and we had our breakfast on the deck outside!
Wouldn't expect this to last, but while its here, I'm not complaining! Well, except that I forgot the beach essentials (jandals = plastic flip-flops) and burned my feet today! The black sand in Western beaches has so much iron that it sticks to a magnet! Running on the beach barefeet feels like running on a hot tin roof...
Just couple of weeks ago the sun didn't feel warm at all...
But we finally checked if we can pack our bikes in the car and drove down to Woodhill forest, a mountain bike park west of Auckland. You pay 6 dollars entry and get access to well maintained trails in a nice fragrant pine forest. Yes, a pine forest. Locals consider pine trees as an introduced species as opposed to native. We enter pine forest and we think of home, so different from the scraggly kiwi bush. We've known about Woodhill forest for ages but just never got down to going there. We had a two hour leisurly ride there, Kaj going ahead and waiting for me while I made my way around the steep corners (also checking the map to make sure that we don't get lost in the wilderness :).
And our packet mee siam sent by Jo and Giul from Singapore turned out to be yummy! Good stuff!
Posted by gkligyte at September 15, 2007 11:27 PM