Coromandel and Tsunami alerts

Last week was another intense week of work started off by doing Monday and Tuesday night shifts (really busy unit and the night person calling in sick) Luckily Wed/Thurs and Friday ended up being quite ones.

1st thing Saturday morning we headed over to the Coromandel peninsular to a nice secluded spot (not very well known) called Oputere. It was Charlie and Kieran's last weekend in NZ and we wouldn't have been anywhere else! Amazing beach, quite campsite and good company. All day Saturday was spent on the beach and in the surf, playing rugby, volleyball and surfing (as well as chillaxing) That evening we went to pick up barbeque things in Whangamata and went for a cheeky drink then headed back to the beach for the barbeque)
Had a lovely evening with barbeque, wine and beer.

Sunday we were rudely awoken at 06.30 with news that there had been a big earthquake in Chile and there could potentially be a big tsunami on the way to us. So as we quickly threw things in the car in order to get to higher land, Kieran had the sudden realisation, that him and Charlie were meant to be flying into Santiago, Chile the next day,

Adding to that, Charlie's dad had escaped earlier for an early morning walk, so there was minor panic at finding him. All turned out ok though, Charlie's Dad turned up a few minutes later unaware of anything.

That day was spent playing rugby on the field and chilling out- until around 1ish when we decided it was probably safe enough to get out of the area - Charlie and Kieran headed down to Tauranga to drop off her dad at the bus station and we headed up to Auckland.

Did a little shopping in Auckland and then Charlie and Kieran joined us for a lovely dinner before we headed back to Auckland.

(Incase you were wondering there travels have been sorted, their flights are being re-directed to Argentina instead, via Sydney for a weeks surfing while things settle down over there)