We
escaped Auckland for the Anniversary Weekend with a trip up to Waipu
Cove. Pretty nice weather, hot as, with water temperature around 22 °C
so we spent most of it in the surf.
The
kids had a ball riding boogie boards and body surfing, burying
themselves in sand etc, and I had a blast learning to catch waves on the
paddleboard. It's exhausting work with lots of uncoordinated failed
attempts (very funny to onlookers apparently), but pretty damn nice when
you get it right and actually hook up on a swell!
My sketches were done laying exhausted on the beach while I recovered from the surf. I'm enjoying the Moleskine landscape watercolour book that we received from the Singapore Symposium sponsors, really nice to sketch in, but the textured watercolour paper seems to confuse my scanner - I think it prefers cheap smooth sketchbook pages.
My sketches were done laying exhausted on the beach while I recovered from the surf. I'm enjoying the Moleskine landscape watercolour book that we received from the Singapore Symposium sponsors, really nice to sketch in, but the textured watercolour paper seems to confuse my scanner - I think it prefers cheap smooth sketchbook pages.
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