A slow start by bowling down to the local coffee joint and having a yarn with Neil.
With fantastic croissants and sourdoughs made by his son, this becomes the easy choice to opening a day.
All the boys are onboard and go over to the rather rocky coastline in front of our place in Matavera. It’s kind of a boys paradise with thousands of hermit crabs to harass and bits of larger crabs and lobsters to piece together into super beasts. We take the time to pick up as much of the blown in rubbish that accumulates in these places, it’s good to start your day by knowing you’ve made the world just a slight bit better.
A plan is formulated to spend a proper day just having a swim at the beach down at Muri. We have been trying to shuffle around and keep busy but really, is that the point? It’s hot and clammy, Tom is keen and for the most part so are the other boys. Nate and I immediately strap on the fins and head out across the lagoon to one of the islands for a bit of an adventure. Tom stays back with Alissa and Max to continue the hermit crab hunt and have a bit of a paddle in the Muri beach water. It’s the perfect place for toddlers here.
Nate and I have a good hunt around and discover a lot of coconuts, hermit crabs and old blown in coral and not much else. It’s a good time and it feels like a shortcut to making ourselves even more isolated and distant from our previous school/work/sports practice/housework lives. Tom is keen to hear of a new trove of hermit crabs to turn over. Hermit crabs are the new enemy.
