Once a month, Simon has a three-day weekend off from work. On his weekend in November, he and some friends came up with the idea of climbing a mountain early in the morning to see the sun rise. They left here at 3:30 on the Saturday morning and drove about 20 minutes to a track that goes up into the Paparoa Mountains, a low range between us and the Tasman Sea. They were at the top in time for sunrise, but clouds came up with the sun and they didn’t see much of that. They had great fun, though, and the scenery they did get to enjoy was amazing! This is the town just below the mountain.
One of the boys found this bottle in a tree.
Elijah took this picture for Grandma, for obvious reasons.
Simon in silhouette.
The track goes to this group of cell towers, which are visible from our house if you know where to look.
They found some sort of vine that they could swing on. I enjoyed these video clips, so thought I’d share them.
Blue mushrooms! I’ve only seen those in photos; it would be great to see them in real life! Thank you for the photo!
The vine-swinging looks like great fun. 🙂