the weekend was so good. on friday we went to gore beach - it wasn't as good as i'd expected... not much walking and it was cold + cloudy. so we left soon and on a whim decided to head down the coast to another beach, called motunau beach. it was amazing. the sun had come back out and it shone down on the smooth sand. tall, layered cliffs bordered the beach, and it was striped with bits of smooth, hard-packed sand and really fun rocks. me and askea had a laugh leaping from rock to rock and i figured out how coordination works - look where you want to go and let your body act, rather than just reacting to where your foot just happens to come down. whey!!
so that was amazing. i really really didn't want to go home. on the way back we stopped at the brew moon cafe - a wonderfully hippish place. i had a ginger beer and askea had a smoothie. it was lovely. we sat on a car-bench. it was a really old 1920s car - well rust bucket, but had been torn apart and the axles formed the support for a table and the bench went along side. it was mad.

then on sunday we returned to mt thomas forest and got to 1023m.

awh - didn't get to finish. bye