On the last Sunday my mom and brother were here, near the end of February, we took them to Pancake Rocks. Of course, Mom has been there before, but my brother hadn’t. We stopped at a picnic spot in the Buller Gorge for a picnic lunch, and after they ate, most of the group went down to the river for a few minutes.
Simon took a plate with him, to try his hand at panning gold. Are those flecks gold… or mica?
The weather was perfect for walking the track around Dolomite Point to see the blowholes.
And, there was a pretty good show! We were grateful that we could share that spectacle with my brother.
When we finished there, most of the family went to Punakaiki Caverns. Three of us were not interested in getting muddy, so we drove to the mouth of the Punakaiki River, instead, and walked on the beach.
Notice the gathering of seagulls?
It was a wonderful day–and as it turned out, the last day that Joe could walk for a long, long time. More about that in a later post.
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