Labour Weekend 2013

Yay! Finally, a long weekend!! It seems so long since Queens Birthday Weekend in early June but finally Labour Weekend arrived. As we are now feeding a veritable menagerie of animals we cannot get away for a break so decided to take a 'local' holiday and spent the afternoon down at Lake Whakamaru. We usually spend a week or so camping here in January but it was really  nice to go down before it gets too crowded and enjoy the lake by ourselves. There were a few keen campers there but nowhere near as many as in Dec/Jan.

 

We set up day camp with some chairs and the chilly bin under the pine trees and unloaded the 'toys'! We took the kayaks and the paddle board down with us to play on and everyone was on, and IN, the water in no time!

 

 

I thought the lake would still be a bit cold but ...apparently not!  :)

 

 

We are so lucky to be able to enjoy such beautiful scenery right on our doorstep.

 

 

Briar and her friend navigating my paddle board.

 

 

Phew...they made it back to shore!

 

 

Enjoying the first summer (ok, spring!) sun

 



 

Gotta have food...oh yeah, and a beer! :)

We had a lovely picnic lunch of bacon & egg pie, tomato & goat's cheese tarts, ham & salad rolls and chocolate cake. Yum, yum.

We had a wonderful afternoon just chilling and relaxing and having fun-we should do it more often!!