Relax at Ohope

This weekend, John and I had our first chance to relax and enjoy the new beach house at Ohope. We packed everything up, including the dogs and headed out to the East Coast.

After having a lovely dinner of local fish & chips our neighbour came round and told us about the 8.9 earthquake and Tsunami in Japan and that there was a warning put out for coastal areas of New Zealand. We decided it wasn't worth the risk as reports were very sketchy at that stage and headed back to Rotorua in the middle of the night.

By morning they had down-graded any warnings so returned to the beach house to enjoy the rest of our weekend.

We had a wonderful time, the weather was outstanding, sunbathed, walked on the beach with the dogs, visited the local summer festival in Whakatane, read lots and generally chilled out.



On Sunday morning we got up just after sunrise and took the fishing rod down to the harbour entrance to do a spot of fishing. No fish caught this time, it must have been too early for them!