Theres a blustery, sleet-filled south-east wind tearing the colour off of Autum outside. The last 48 hours have been grey and blurry. Its strange how the change in weather can affect ones moods and rythms. This wintery weather and shorter days has made me realise that its back to the routine of going to work in semi-darkness and arriving home in darkness. Grey mist clogging the sky for days at a time. For the coming months I will only be able to sit in the sun on my front porch on weekends. Kayaking will be restricted to flat water again as the rivers are just too cold now (at least for me). Opportunities to go kite buggying will be getting fewer. Usually in winter the only consistant winds to be had are chilling south-westers that arrive fresh from the bottom of the world with vigour. For the hardy kite flyer only.
I have projects though, to see me through the colder months and long dark evenings. Building the remote control kite-aerial-photography kit that I bought a few weeks ago should fill in a few hours, to say the least.
In an effort to fight off the winter blues I thought I post a photo of yet another beach, to spite the weather outside. Below is Karamea Beach from a trip down the West Coast at the start of last summer.
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