Kai Iwi Beach
Today I visited Kai Iwi beach (also known as Mowhanau), a lovely settlement fifteen minutes’ drive up the coast from Wanganui. My family used to go camping here when I was very small, and my friends and I had the occasional holiday in a caravan when I was at high school.
In fact I have a lot of happy memories of good times at Kai Iwi. The best part about today is that I went swimming – wait for it – topless! Oh, the excitement! It was fairly spontaneous but I did make sure there wasn’t anyone nearby. And I wasn’t quite the graceful mermaid you’re all imagining – I’d only walked a few feet into the water when the sand turned to clay and I promptly slid into a hole and wasted my toe. The slip factor meant I wasn’t going to get very far on two feet so I opted for the crouch-in-the-path-of-incoming-waves method of ‘swimming’ (better known as ‘getting wet’). That was pretty nice so I graduated to lying-on-my-back-and-wallowing. After a bit I clambered up and rather gigglingly ran up the beach to where I’d left my towel. What a buzz!
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In fact I have a lot of happy memories of good times at Kai Iwi. The best part about today is that I went swimming – wait for it – topless! Oh, the excitement! It was fairly spontaneous but I did make sure there wasn’t anyone nearby. And I wasn’t quite the graceful mermaid you’re all imagining – I’d only walked a few feet into the water when the sand turned to clay and I promptly slid into a hole and wasted my toe. The slip factor meant I wasn’t going to get very far on two feet so I opted for the crouch-in-the-path-of-incoming-waves method of ‘swimming’ (better known as ‘getting wet’). That was pretty nice so I graduated to lying-on-my-back-and-wallowing. After a bit I clambered up and rather gigglingly ran up the beach to where I’d left my towel. What a buzz!
posted by Jessie at 10:10
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SCANDALOUS! OMIGOSH!
Haha. Hey SG, sorry your comment got lost. I was still editing...
Haha. Nothing beat skinny-dipping (or topless dipping in your case). Although I remember one day having gone through from taihape toward napier and going for a swim in the river and floating downstream on my back down some rapids and round a corner....
Needless to say, if I'd known there was a bridge round the corner....
yeah, i like to go topless when swimming... i say give them paparazzis the gratuitous nipple shot early on, and then they'll bugger off and annoy someone else...
Strangely enough, i haven't seen myself in the newspapers, despite my best efforts to be accomodating. Ye'd think they'd be grateful, wouldn't you?
Oh wait a minute, i was in the papers once. but they couldn't prove anything, and besides, them Santaclauses probably deserved it.
S.x
Ah! Welcome back! Those news articles in your last post were pretty disturbing. I have to confess I tend to bury my head in the sand - so easy to do from NZ - until something awful happens here I guess. I suppose I ought to have written this there... not here.
Anyway, you all need to work on guessing some more song lyrics! Get thee to my previous post!
sounds like an amazing day.. i'm jealous. My day consisted of shivering my arse off in seriously sub-zero temps.. bleargh.
Northern hemisphere, huh?
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