Today I finally caught up with my cousin Dan, who lives in New Plymouth. When I opened the door to him I thought it was my Uncle Ivan, his father, standing there. After some conversation and a bit of exploration by Dan it turned out that he used to visit the original part of the house that I am currently staying in. After some general catch up we headed back to the coastal path, calling in at his house on the way for me to meet his lovely wife Jenifer and pick up a hat. This morning was much sunnier than yesterday so sun block etc were definitely required. We started again at the Waiwhakaio River with the beautiful bridge gleaming in the sunshine.
Time passed easily as we walked to Bell Block constantly chatting. After a relatively short time, mostly because of the chatting we arrived at Bell Block. I was interested to see that there was a dedicated cycle track there and apparently there is an all weather athletics track at Inglewood.
We retraced our steps back to the bridge, stopping on the way to admire the coastline and take a couple of photos. I was amazed to see that little penguins could be found along the coast as well as seals.
After dropping in to see some more family in Bell Block we headed for the Len Lye Building in New Plymouth. This building is dedicated to his works and seems to particularly feature “Wands” While we were there the curator of the room turned on an exhibition of “Wand Dance”, which was quite mesmerising. I made a little video of them because a photo wouldn’t capture the effect.
He also had some interesting shapes and combinations of textures.
