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Just along Dive Crescent...


Over the last day or so we've been visiting a couple of places around Tauranga sort of saying goodbye. In 2 days time we move to Kerikeri so we have been slowly packing things we need and want into boxes. We have a cleaner sorted and someone to steam clean the carpet so hopefully we will be up and gone by at least 7am.

This is the view from the Otamataha Pa (Tauranga Mission Cemetery) over the motorway which leads into Sulphur Point, Dive Crescent or back into the motorway to either Maunganui or Auckland. The trees and branches were bare, the air was windy and nippy and by the time we got back in the car after a wander around our noses and ears were feeling a bit frozen.

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PerthDailyPhoto said…
You can tell itsi a crisp winter day Amy, we had the same all of last week. Hope all goes well on moving day ✨
15 July 2018 at 22:00
Graham Edwards said…
Well it's been good seeing Tauranga and its environs through your lens. I'm definitely looking forward to more photos from up North.
16 July 2018 at 01:03
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