Marilu at the bach

And I know this is all out of order, but the blog isn't complete without an IMPORTANT note about Jay bringing Marilu up for her first bach experience. He's rivalled me in the photo stakes. Took 100's of gorgeous pictures of romantic dinners, catching, cleaning and cooking snapper for dinner, marshmallows on a beach fire (despite a total fire ban), exploring Tauranga Iti and Butterfly Bay (Whanga is it's proper name), and climbing the hill. Hope it wont be long before he brings her back!

Jay, Barbie & Charlie - and the dinghy gives great service!

Never did finish that last blog where I was, supposedly, learning how to put the photos in the right place! What I wanted to talk about was how wonderful it was to spend time at the bach with Jay and Barbie and Charlie. And Fitzy of course. Charlie brought friends, and they were delivered in style!


The dinghy gave sterling service as a barge as well as a taxi!





Poor old dinghy. Charlie helped out and told me all about his troubles.



And Jay signed off the visitors book till next time he's home from Londontown



In the meantime, we'll have to get on and finish off the retaining wall!

The retaining wall - and LSPS gathering

Jay and I had a busy weekend at the bach building a retaining wall to replace the kikuyu that has been holding up the bank for ever.

It was a mission using the dinghy as a barge, but Jay worked like a trojan and it got done!

We arrived on Sunday afternoon, in time to meet up with an LSPS contingent - lovely to see everyone there!