Pakiri Beach Bums...
We've just spent a few days lazing around at Pakiri Beach Holiday Camp with Cathy, Clayton and their son Lync. Our accommodation was positively palatial, a bunkhouse that sleeps 16 for just the two of us. We had our own kitchen, bathroom and the huge luxury of a TV.

I love going to Pakiri, it's one place where we get to really relax. Pakiri to me is long hot days, a soundtrack of birdsong, booming surf, and lazing with a good book in the shade of a pohutukawa tree. Sometimes the moonlight is so bright you can see colours at night and the beach is dazzling white by day. Even when it's busy it still feels like there's enough space, and the famous Goat Island marine reserve is nearby. Next time I really want to go out in the glass bottomed boat.