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Martin's Bay

A couple of days ago, we drove over to Scandrett Park and took the trail down to Martin's Bay, a lovely little settlement looking east into the Pacific. There's a nice, long beach that stretches south for about a kilometre. We found the usual suspects - Oystercatchers, Dotterels and Red-beaked gulls. We also found a beautiful scallop shell lying on the soft sand. That immediately made us think of Phil and his Camino. (The scallop shell is the symbol of the Camino de Santiago, a pilgrimage across Spain.). Phil/Felipe has done two and a half Caminos - one in Spain and one and a half on his own ten acres of Vashon Island, WA. His story never ceases to inpsire me. Check it out at http://caminoheads.com/

TODAY'S TIDBIT

Gosh, I'm having trouble thinking of something. Heaven forbid I should already be getting used to things here down under!

Ah! Rural Kiwis have real mailboxes rather than those awful group mailboxes we in Canada have to endure. They also obviously make their own, given the great mix of shapes, colours and sizes. It's wonderful to see the diversity. Sure beats having box C-11!