Wednesday 24 February – a walk in the bush with Jessie

Slept really well last night after taking an antihistamine to ease some of the mozzie bites acquired in Coromandel. Woke up to a beautiful summer’s morning. After breakfast I continued a bit with my yellow roses (Leigh tells me it is a David Austin rose called Graham Thomas).image

After lunch Leigh had another Facilitation presentation at a school in Tokoroa. I had already planned to go for a walk through the bush nearby with Jessie, otherwise I might have gone along with Leigh to check out Tokoroa.

The bush walk Opepe reminded me of similar walks I’d done with the Kiwi backpacker bus. It was a comfortable walk pretty well on the level, a very well maintained path, through a variety of native trees, with very few people on it.  We were actually surprised to see just 2 other homosapiens!  Many of the trees were named and Jessie corrected my pronounciation and made fun of my English accent.

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imageI loved the way the ferns cast shadows against the sunlight on the path.

imageimageOn the way back we picked up Hunter from school.  She was delighted to have been made school representative for her year.  Well done Hunter!

imageI spent the rest of the afternoon chilling out under the shade of the yellow rose bush in the garden listening to ‘The Girl on the Train’ before Leigh returned and brought out the G&Ts.

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