Author: Cecilia Mary Gunther
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Found my house
The perfect house. A tiny walk back down this river which meets the beach I see the perfect little house for me!! 😂 It is about twenty minutes on foot from the beach! Maybe the farmer will sell me a little bit of garden. And we are good to go. My little off grid house.…
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Fishing with Drones
The locals! Not me. I don’t have the patience for fishing. You can tell a local on the beach because they are in shorts, wooly jerseys and their gumboots. Like me! I always wear my gumboots on the beach. This is not a beach for skimpy clothing. I just popped this onto Instagram. Have a…
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Dual Personalities
Marsh and Sea. The clash of sea, stones, driftwood and flowing river and tributaries makes this area super interesting. Looking from land across a river across another spit of land out to sea then over to Kapiti Island makes our brains work to make sense of it. In my mind – swans don’t belong so…
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New Beach. New Vibe
This new beach is stoney and wild and wicked. The waves and the wind are heaving. The undertow is a shocker! We love it. There are two parts to the Otaki beach experience. Coming soon to a screen near you! 😂 The Beach: Things are not calm here. The wind was howly huge. Blowing up…
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Relocation Day: To another Beach! SURPRISE! 😂
Today a couple of kids and I are going to drive up the beach to another little beach house! The blue dot is where I am this morning – and this afternoon we will be toddling up to Ōtaki Beach. There we will be joined by more family and old friends. Yesterday morning after our…
The Kitchen's Garden 