River eels

If everything goes according to plan, tomorrow we're traveling an hour out of town to a small beach village called Whangamata. There will be no computer there so no updates for a while. Today our friend Lydia drove us to this secluded little swimming hole. It was cold but we swam anyway (that's right, I swam).

The view down to the river.

Where we swam.

This is the weird termite mound/sand castle I made the other day that we then enticed Mr. Peanut (the dog) to destroy by throwing his ball into the tunnel underneath it.