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18,700 km from Coed Y Brenin<br />
Happy New Year! For the summer holidays here we’ve been tripping around various relative’s<br />
homes in the lower North Island before heading out to a beach on the East Coast. We actually live<br />
pretty close to a Waikanae Beach but holidays in NZ must be accompanied by a 3hr drive with<br />
annoyed children hence we head elsewhere.<br />
This year we stayed at a bach at Castle Point. It’s a rather spectacular setting. It’s most well known<br />
for the lighthouse but for the kids it has the advantage of a lagoon that you can see in the top left of<br />
the above picture. It’s pretty shallow and no nasty currents in it so good for them to swim in. The<br />
only downer is that the waters not that warm – which is rather standard for NZ beaches.<br />
An interesting find I had was that the Castlepoint daisy Brachyglottis compactus grows only on the<br />
crumbled limestone of the reef and Castle Rock. The other interesting find I had was that I’m getting<br />
rather scared of heights in my advancing age. Taking the kids up to the lighthouse proved very nerve<br />
wracking. They have no fear of anything (including cartwheels along the edge of cliffs) so I had to be
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