SITTING

 

I mentioned in the previous post what a lovely day we have here. Warm sunshine, cloudless blue sky. Lovely. It should be a nice evening to see the rare super blue moon tonight.

This afternoon I went for a walk to the end of the bay. This was the first walk I've done since the Glacier walks in July when I hurt my hip.

I took it easy and, at the end of the bay track where steps lead up to the top I felt a bit of discomfort so sat on the rocks by the beach for an hour or so. 

It was very quiet and there were no ships coming in but I watched the gannets fishing instead. There was obviously a run of fish in the tide and the gannets and the odd seagull wheeled and dived and splashed looking for fish.

It's a magnificent sight seeing the beautiful and streamlined gannet diving down and folding it's wings before plunging deep into the water with an almighty whoomp-splash sound.

I was pleased to see that the council have recently erected a dog prohibition sign at the start of the track.

This is a kiwi sanctuary area and no dogs are permitted whether on a leash or not. Entitled arseholes have in the past removed the signs so I guess this one will also be defaced or broken but at least it's drawing the regulations to their attention. It also backs me up when I remonstrate with the arseholes. There were no dog-walkers today though.