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page 3 Miranda has her camera ready almost immediately. After coming home and seeing what her camera has been capturing that she hasn't always appreciated at the time, she is starting to see things in a much more detailed way, on the job as it were.
As we head to the right, the beach opens right up to almost a kilometre wide in places. Great logs sit partly buried in the sand,
and every bit of driftwood and seaweed plays its own game with the sand and the wind.
I am fascinated by the marbled patterns in the sand.
A swirl of sand blows continuously across the beach at ankle level. We can stand still for a few minutes and watch our footprints almost disappear.
Miranda catches sight of a couple of birds out near the shore. From a distance they look quite similar to the ones we saw earlier at Kelly's Beach, but just a little different. These are completely black, and somewhat more wary than the earlier ones.
A pair of paradise duck just up the beach take off in a long lazy arc, and a pair of black back gull look just like a taxidermist's exhibit.
Up above, the vegetation on the cliff face is shaped by the wind in a wonderfully soft range of greens.
We could spend days and walk no more than a few hundred metres and never run out of things of interest to photograph. Even a dried up mussel shell has its own beauty
and the white translucence of a ramshorn shell
We are getting concerned about Alice and we retrace our steps, what can be seen of them. Along the beach, a Land Rover is parked and it reminds me very much of my dad fishing at Kariotahi beach near Waiuku.
Miranda stops for a few more pics
The clouds are starting to move a little faster up top and there is beginning to be a bite in the wind. We head for the car. Alice is pleased to see us. We check out the camp grounds around the corner but it is closed and we head back to Kelly's Beach.
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