Camilla

Camilla is nine already, turning 10 in a couple month's time. She will be in Year 6 this year being her last year at primary school. This will be her first year at school without either one or both of her older sisters being at the school as well! She had an active year last year playing netball for Rebels Netball Club where her favourite positions were goal shoot and wing attack and she plans to play again next year. Camilla is especially close to our dog, Benji and loves her computer games! I'm posting a few photos of Camilla taken tonight and will dig a few others up as well....

Summer holiday in the Bay of Islands

We have just had a lovely three day holiday in Paihia, Bay of Islands about 4 hours north of Auckland. The weather was wonderful when we needed it to be. The girls had fun shopping in Paihia and swimming at Paihia beach. The photo above is of the girls "patiently" waiting for our tour bus which took us up to the Kauria Forests, to Cape Reinga (the most northern point of New Zealand where the Tasman Sea and Pacific Ocean meet) and on a 80km ride down Ninety Mile Beach. A definate highlight was a stop off at the sand dunes to boogie board down them for a while.

Here the girls are standing on a flattened kauri trunk which is believed to be 40,000 years old.

Here we are at the top of New Zealand (Cape Reinga) with the Tasman Sea far below us.


About to go through the Hole in the Rock on the boat. It's pretty far out to sea and once we travelled through the Hole in the Rock we were surrounded by shoals and shoals of fish.


Here the girls discovered "friendly" little cat fish in the water all around their feet.

Fooling around at the island stopover....