Mangawhai Heads - March 2011

Our rented house - the steps nearly killed me...	View of the mouth of the harbour	View of the sand dunes - Little Barrier in the distance	Mangawhai Heads
Just before sunrise	Sunrise at Mangawhai Heads	Sunrise at Mangawhai Heads	Annecy ready for launching
The Wake-boards are ready to go	Mangawhai Harbour	Zach and Charli are ready...	Mangawhai Heads
Zach wants to go Wake-boarding	Come on dad	Zach's ready to go	Master Zach is only 6 years old
Look at him go	Ready to cross the wake of the boat	Off he falls	Swimming to the boat
Julie and Charli both on the Wake-board	See - no hands - Charli is waving	Clever Charli	See Charli swimming back to the boat
Julie's turn on her own now	Mangawhai Heads sand dunes	Mangawhai Heads sand dunes	Mangawhai Heads sand dunes
Mangawhai Heads sand dunes	Lunch time on the sand dunes	Mangawhai Heads sand dunes	Ocean beach on the sand dunes
Ocean beach on the sand dunes	Ocean beach on the sand dunes	Phil and Zach playing in the surf	Pacific Ocean
Pop, Charli and Zach on top of a sand dune	Phil helping Pop back to the boat	The sand was hot and it was a long way back to the boat	Skippity Hop down the sand dunes
Note the areas where there were shells in the sand	Snap!!	Mangawhai Heads	Mangawhai Heads
Mangawhai Heads	Looking out for the dolphins that were swimming among the waves	Can you see the dolphins?	See the dolphin in the water
Looking out for the dolphins that were swimming among the waves	More dolphin watchers	Mangawhai Heads beach	Phil at Mangawhai Heads beach
Mangawhai Heads beach	Mangawhai Heads beach	Mangawhai Heads surf beach	Early Sunday morning
Trying to go out the mouth of the Mangawhai Harbour	Mangawhai Heads	Hitting a few swells as we try to go out the mouth of the estuary	We've crossed a few large swells
It's a bit rough!!	See the boat behind us hitting the waves	Phew - we made it...	Yes, we made it - but it's really a bit too choppy...
Heading back into the harbour - looking at the waves behind us!!!	Big waves at Mangawhai Heads	Getting smoother as we pass Mangawhai Heads	Annecy in calmer water in Mangawhai Harbour
Stopping for lunch on the sand dunes	Mangawhai Heads	Batman and Robin on the sand dunes	Mangawhai Heads
The family are planning to walk up the highest sand dune	Mangawhai Heads	Mangawhai Heads	Annecy waiting for us on the harbour
Where we sat and waited for the family to return from their walk	30 minutes later they arrived back	Still playing...	They climbed up to the top of the sand dune in the background
Race to the finish	Daddy and Charli win	Sand Dunes on Mangawhai Harbour	Sand Dunes at Mangawhai Harbour
Mangawhai Heads	Gramps and Zach tidying away the ropes	Mangawhai Harbour	Sandy Zach back on the boat after playing on the sand dunes...