Te Mata Peak hike and Waimarama Beach

My folks and I on our way to Waimarama Beach and Bare Island.

Tsunami Warning sign...

Looking down at Craggy Range winery from Te Mata Peak.

My dad looking back towards Te Mata Peak before we started the route leading to the switch-back decent track.

My dad (in the shade) taking a breather.

The start of the track.

...and looking back up once we got to the bottom, where my mum was waiting.

SCOM Napier snaps

Some photo's of our short visit to Napier, NZ.

A close-up view of Napier Hill and it's sandstone make up.

A wider view showing Napier Hill.

The Ahuriri foreshore and harbour as viewed from the walkway

next to Hardinge Road.

A "natural light" photo inside the meeting room (we had a power outage).

The NZ crew preparing lunch on Wednesday.

"OUTFOXED" in Haumoana - great idea for a outing.

A Napier Uber... ;-)

Disembarking.

Phil with some of the skeet-destroyer options in the foreground.

Steve, aka Jason Bourne.

Our most deadly shooter of the day ;-)

Look carefully, the evidence is visible in the lawn.

Just about done - Only some minor bits to finish. Phew...

The patio is done and we put the soakwells in this morning. Hard work, but done and pleased with it.

The guys from Grand Patio's (Dixon Rd, Rockingham) finished the patio roof on Thursday, so all that remains is the paving. As the roof is ~50 sq.m, proper drainage for the down-pipes was important. 

We bought some Enviro-cubes (polypropylene cubes) from Reese's Plumbing (also on Dixon Rd) plus the other bits and pieces (90mm PVC pipe, 90 degree bends, geo-textile fabric etc). These cubes are great, as they can handle 1,000kg load, so there is no worries about sagging into the future. We started at 6:30am and were all done at midday, before it got really hot. Wohoo!

Can't wait to have it all done so we can chill. Soon....

Just before 7am and the digging began. Luckily WA soil is very sandy, so not that hard to dig in.

Eugene busy on the hole for the second soakwell.

Almost 700mm deep, with Lily doing inspections every minute or so...

Karla, being nearly 18, gets up a little later than the rest of us.
She started at around 8am, but was flying along. 

Second hole 700mm down.

One of the cubes wrapped in geo-cloth, which keep the sand out.

90mm Drain pipes in, levels checked, and we start to back-fill.

All done! Now all that remains is paving.