birthday girl

We surfed with our little green turtle at Bumboras on saturday - he didn't seem very well at all wobbly and staying high up on the surface, getting whitewashed with all of the waves.

We came back on sunday to look for him , to see if there was anything we could do to help , but we found mertle washed up on the rocks.

Mertle was about 15 years old, had only 3 and a little stub of a fin for the fourth fin. The marine studies teacher thinks it looked like a tiger shark had biten it off a few years ago and healed over.

On national park inspection - the thyroid looked enlarged, lots of scratches and gouges in its shell. They will look at it again in 1 year to see if there is a plastic bag inside. Very sad.

Apart from that , we had two fantastic days of surfing at Bumboras - both 3 hour sessions and out twice today.

wearable art

Mareeva and Tori designed the butterfly dress,

George and wayne won the air tickets to wearable art in new zealand later this year,Mareeva in lou's foam piece dress and skirt

Coffee dress

Tamson in the coffee dress, mareeva in Lou taveners foam dress, tori in the butterfly dress designed and made by tori and mareeva

Kids Zumbatomic at Mojo

Zumbatomic with visiting instructor Liz Cribb at mojo.

Day 9 & 10

Its really hot and Emily Bay is perfect

Surfed at Bumboras all day and then came over to the salt house - the surf is now huge.

We did zumbatomic with visiting instructor Liz from NZTahlia jumping

More w,aa Teva is 2nd from front.

Its Day 8 and we are busy

Tali and I started the day with a snorkel at Emily

2 Brilliant surfs at Bumby today

The Stig

the kids make a go cart

Teva and the boys did a w'aa paddle

Boxing Day , Day 7 Lots of surfing

We surfed all day todayThe reef was huge

We Loved Bumby


Kai loved the Salthouse
Big sets out at the reef