May 27, 2007 Kaitaia, New Zealand

Ninety Mile Beach, next to campground.  60 miles of unspoiled beach, no condos, etc.

Kaitaia Anglican Church - went to church here Sunday.

Tombstones in Anglican cemetary.

Date:  Sunday, May 27, 2007

Kaitaia, New Zealand

 

Today Linda, Roy, Doris, Joan, and myself went to the Kaitaia Anglican Church for worship.  The service we went to at 9:30AM was their contemporary service.  Since their traditional service was at 8:00AM we had opted for the later service.  The minister recognized our presence during the service and made us feel very welcome.  Part of his message was that you can do a lot of praying about something but at some point you have to take action on your own to put God’s word into action.  It was along the lines of “The Theology of the Hammer” that Millard Fuller wrote about.

 

After church we stopped by the house and found that the floors had been sanded but the sealant had not been put on yet.  This might be an interesting situation on Monday if we can’t work inside of the house.

 

On the way to the campground we stopped and had lunch at the Kauri Kingdom and did a little souvenir shopping there.  The staircase carved inside the kauri log is still amazing to see.  During the bus trip to Cape Reinga the bus driver pointed out a large field where they were digging trenches to look for buried kauri logs.  Apparently at some point in time there was a tsunami or other natural happening that caused a lot of trees to fall and be buried.  Since it’s against the law to cut down any kauri tree now they look for the one’s that were buried.

 

Back at the campground Joan and I took a walk down to the beach and found that we got there just in time to see a few people that had brought their horses and two wheel carts to ride on the beach.  They were just loading up the horses into the trailers.  We talked briefly to one or two and were told that they go out on weekends to ride on the beach or other trails around the Northland area.

 

The wind was so strong on the beach that our walk was relatively short and decided to treat ourselves to ice cream from the campground office.  Later at dinner some of us brought our dinners to the barbecue area to eat together.

 

It was a very nice day.