Ruakaka on the Coast

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After morning tea with Nicola, our very quiet neighbour! we took a very slow trip - through lots of dusty roadworks - on the road to Auckland and arrived eventually at Ruakaka! This is near to where Leigh works at the Marsden Point Oil Refinery. Next time we will go and see him for lunch in the nice Cafe North and visit the Refinery Visitor's Centre which may be interesting?

The Ruakaka beach was beautiful - white sand, birdlife in abundance, and loads of shells! It was warm and sunny but soon it was time to head back home.

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Photos

Looking
Along the beach!

Digging For Treasure!
Alex is hoping his walking stick will help him divine some water???

Zinnias
They grow everywhere on the sand - to stabilise the sand dunes. Also lots of lupins.

Steps
Steps up to the POSH houses - we did see one we thought we liked!