Aramoana beach weekend

We've made some great friends here in Dunedin but sadly a few of them are moving on at the end of this year. A couple of weekends ago was the last weekend that we were all in town at the same time so we booked a bach (aka shack/cottage/cabin) in a small beach community called Aramoana, about 45min from Dunedin.
It was the perfect cosy semi-rundown family beach shack full of quirky homemade art. The days were spent lazing about, playing games and trekking up sand dunes.



The shack was on a spit of land jutting into the Dunedin harbour so we were nestled between sand dunes with beach 5 meters away on both sides and at high tide we were cut off from the mainland. By night we watched the sunset on the beach:



The water here is pretty chilly (there's not much between us and the arctic except cold water) but Charlie, Justin and Kate went for an extrememly invigorating morning dip (not me, I was bred in tropical waters!).
It was Guy Fawkes weekend so by night we played with fireworks and I got some great shots. Here's Kit letting a rocket off, magic!

Aramoana, or Aramomomo...?I just spent another great day with these guys today at the beach and managed to stand up on a surf board for a solid length of time! We feel really lucky to have met such great people and although we're sad to see a few of them go we look forward to visiting them some day, and to another year with the rest of them who will still be here.