She feeds, cleanses, challenges, trains, stimulates, and blisses us out. For New Zealanders she insulates and isolates us, making our country the place that it is. She is the Pacific, and after much anticipation (like two kids at 5am Christmas morning), we have finally been re-united. Camana is a small city just off Peru's Southern stretch of South America's massive Pacific Coast. While nothing pretty, it is the summer getaway of many recreating locals who flock to enjoy typical beach fare - fish, ice cream, sun, and bikini clad women. More well-to-do folk even go to the effort of constructing a concrete beachside house - until a combo of earthquakes and tsunamis cleansed the long low-lying foreshore. So we arrived to find an industrial looking waterfront in La Punta, Camana's seaside retreat. Semi complete concrete, with
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