Makara Trip

On Sunday, after waffles, we took the dogs to Makara. It's up by the wind farm which I was working at last week, but this time I could get close without having to agree not to take photos!! :D

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From the top of the walk you get a good view of lots of the turbines



We could get pretty close to them too, they really are MASSIVE!
The blades are 80m long and the tower is 120m high. EJ and I worked out the other day that the tips of the blades were traveling at 450kmph! (it was a lot more windy)


Our view up at the Gun Emplacements



You could see Mana and Kapiti in the distance too which was awesome









Jake is very much a black lab, he can't get enough of the water
Jake had a good swim with me, although he kept trying to climb onto me which didn't let me have a very relaxing snorkel!
Then as I got dry he decided to try and dig up rocks under the water... he's special!


Terrible frame but I still think this photo is cool!

Nick and Fenn watched us from the beach (on the left)
The swimmers warm up in the sun :)
That was my third swim in the sea in 8 days - Summer really is coming!