Thursday, March 1, 2012

On the up!

We are all becoming more and more settled in the Bay of Islands thanks to our New Year's resolution - to go to the beach as much as we can!

There are hundreds of beaches, bays and rocks to explore and we have begun in earnest. The past two weekends have been spent free-diving looking for crayfish, shell food and spearfishing food for the table. We have made friends with some awesome people - many of whom have boats which makes for even more possibilities. The sea is almost always flat and visibility is really good. Last weekend I swam with hundreds of powder-puff blue fish and an arar of other colourful fish - a few larger grey ones ended up on our dinner plates too!

Will and Bernie come out on the boat or hang out on a beach - roughing it as you can see!

Our boy continues to develop fast and is talking, pointing and moving more and more each day.

On Tuesday night, a lady from work took us out on her 33-foot yacht for the evening - a couple of us dived for mussels before boarding for fine wine and food in a secluded bay. Will loved it - pointing at birds and islands, before going below deck to open al of the cupboards - heaven!


I cooked the mussels and have never tasted such creamy flesh on them before - they're not exactly small either:

We had cherry-picked the smaller ones as they get tougher when they are much bigger than this!

Hopefully we'll get out again this weekend - life's a beach!

CBW x

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