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I've survived the 21st century so far without a mobile phone.  Yes, until now I have not owned a mobile phone! 

But juggling busy café life with family life, it came to a point where we needed to be in touch where ever we happen to be. 

So I've got this fancy phone that does everything, but what I love is the amazing camera and being able to upload photographs instantly no matter where I am. 

So for op-shop, café  and Heart Felt upadates. follow me on Instagram.

 

Climbing Castle Rock

 

I never intended climbing Castle Rock with the children.  It did cross my mind that Charlie could possibly do it, but forgot the idea by putting it into the 'too hard basket'. 

But that evening we watched 'Beyond the Edge', a wonderful movie documentary about Sir Edmond Hillary's climb up Mount Everest.  That put the fire into Charlie's belly and so we did it!

I felt so proud of these two (and of myself actually) and they couldn't wait to get down the bottom so they could tell everyone about their conquest of Castle Rock.

Pictures taken with my phone, not my Canon.

Rock pools

Fossil hunters

Sand dunes

Sea waves are green and wet,
But up from where they die,
Rise others vaster yet,
And those are brown and dry.

They are the sea made land
To come at the fisher town,
And bury in solid sand
The men she could not drown.

She may know cove and cape,
But she does not know mankind
If by any change of shape,
She hopes to cut off mind.

Men left her a ship to sink:
They can leave her a hut as well;
And be but more free to think
For the one more cast-off shell.

- Robert Frost

Pipi gathering

We have just got back from six glorious days at the beach.  We have many wonderful adventures to share and experienced some of the best dramatic landscape Castlepoint has to offer.

Oscar's favourite beach past time was pipi gathering.  He didn't like eating them (Sadie and I did), but he loved digging his toes into the sand and scooping up lovely fresh shellfish.