KareKare Beach

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After a lazy morning (it was saturday after all) we got loaded into the car and headed over to the West Coast of Auckland to Karekare Beach (where they filmed 'The Piano'). It was unbelievably stunning! The beach is a black sand beach (apparently due to volcanic rock) and had huge craching waves and huge cliff drops - it was quite iterally like something out of the movies!

We had a fab time paddling, although the rip tide was pretty scary so we literally dipped our toes and sat on the sand and played. For once the sky was perfectly clear and blue, so although it was a bit blowy it was lovely and warm!

We stopped off at a cafe to get a bowl of latte some cake and an ice cream for Abi! I could really get used to this x

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