Aramoana outing

On Tuesday we went off out to Aramoana for a holiday outing.  The kids have never been out there, in fact David and I have only been once, about 20 years ago.  The weather was lovely although the wind was a bit thin.  We saw a few seals and some baby terns.  We took sunscreen but forgot to apply it so nearly everyone got burnt to some degree.  It was a good day out though.

Stopped at the Port Chalmers lookout to look at the view

Some kind of beach celery

Couldn't get right to the end of the Mole, the road was sealed

Many of the trees in the Aramoana Arboretum were dead or ailing... Dodonea viscosa

Some trees just aren't suited to growing in sand...

Tern chicks

Piles and piles of turret shells

Weird circle of marks around this dead fish

A kite surfer was enjoying the wind (far right)

Red sand worms which we have never seen before

Little Blue Penguin

Bluebottle jellyfish aka Portugese Man'o'war