Bolder Bay!

Best few days ever...  We've been up and down to BB for the last few weeks and we just got home from spending a few days there.  Dom was a tropper and went up every morning at 6.30am to go to work, and then came back (thru the vile earthquake traffic that is ONE LANE IN AND OUT OF SUMNER) after a full day of work for an evening of Cluedo, long-drop trips with the kids, and showers in the great outdoors.  As you can see in the pictures we have done some EQ repairs, and it is just bliss down there...  There are record numbers of walkers going past the bach at all times of the day and night because of the new walkway around Godley Head.   

 Meg, Kate and Lulu playing Monopoly - after an hour or so of this Lucy said she still didn't know the rules or what she was supposed to be doing.  Meg's leg is wrapped in plastic wrap because she and Kate went for a wander over the hills and Meg decided to do a Kate impersonation at one point and (of course) fell off a rock and ripped her thigh to bits.

 Mike, about to BIKE BACK TO CHCH!!!

 Oh yes, Mike biked to BB and then back home after a hard day's grafting.  What a legend...  See ya in 27km Mike...

 Sebas' first fist (he is telling Dom about it on my cellphone)

 See how the bolders are now more like small, volcanic rocks?  This is because of the scree slopes made by major cliff falls during the EQs.  I guess the little rocks will eventually get washed away and the big bolders underneth will be exposed again.  But for now, it looks odd.

 Bear Grylls would be proud!  Mike made himself a raincoat of a bin bag... to go back up the hill.  Meg and I decided we preferred the Backpacker look - and just put our backpacks in the plastic bags.  Far be it from me to stop Mike from looking like a homeless muscle man as he hiked up the hill inthe driving rain.  I was laughing so hard that I nearly fell off the path several times.  And what did he do as soon as he got to the car? Got changed... yer, that raincoat sure worked a treat Mike! 

Lucy and Seb raced up to the car,as usual, and then had to sit there for 10 minutes trying to shelter from the rain.  They had muddy bums is allI will say.  (And yes, those bags are full of rubbish, you have to bring it back home and dispose of it)