French Bay, being on the Manukau Harbour, has large tidal flats and when the tide comes in it gradualy rolls its way forward across the shell flats to the beach.




mangrove seedling

kauri branchlet

pohutukawa seedling that must have been ripped out by a flash flood

pohutukawa leaf

pine needles and a puka leaf

another mangrove seedling

green lipped muscle shell, I wonder if a schnapper got it

camouflaged crab

shells!
On ANZAC Day we took the children on a walk up to the Kitekite Falls at the head of the Piha valley.
Took us about an hour as dear old froggy, our blind old labrador, had to sniff his way there!
Lovely bush (rainforest) on the way.




