Growing Snowflowers

Week one:

We visited the west coast beach of Bethells, it's very wild and rugged and right next to the beach that was used in the film 'The Piano'. Piper's Nana Rosemary lives 10 minutes from Bethells in the Waitakere Ranges, which is where you will find a lot of natural rainforest. This beach is unusual because it has black volcanic sand...we only saw a few people on the beach, some sand surfers and some riders on horses. We played in the little salt water river...Piper had a blast. It's such a huge expanse of beach, and once you get past the dunes it is flat like the salt flats in Utah!