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Norfolk Pine reflections on Marine Parade


Gotta love early Summer mornings along Marine Parade, part of where I walk each day. This is a road along the beach that's lined with mostly posh multi-million dollar holiday homes.

As you can see on the left of the photo there's one that's been built and on the right are a ton of carparks as this area gets very very busy over the Christmas/New Year season - the beach is extremely popular. Lucky we live 5 minutes away so it doesn't take us long to walk if we want a swim :-)

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Comments

carol l mck said…
Looks very inviting ~ Hope you had a great Thanksgiving ~ ^_^
Amypie said…
hi Carol, it's a nice spot, we dont' celebrate thanksgiving in NZ but hope yours went well :-)
betty-NZ said…
What a great find! I love the Norfolk pines that I find along the coastline roads in Taranaki.
Yogi♪♪♪ said…
I love the thought of going to the beach for a swim at Christmas!!
Rhonda Albom said…
It's almost silly season. Let the fun begin!
Gosh... you live five minutes away from all that beauty and wonderful beach? Wow...that's wonderful. Though I'm sure it's a tiny bit less pleasant during the busiest visitor and tourist times.

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