today i had a quasi-day off in new zealand.
and what better place to have a quasi-day off than the most beautiful country in the world?
i’m almost afraid to tell people how beautiful new zealand is. cos then everyone will come here and possibly tarnish it’s beauty. but new zealand is almost unspeakably beautiful.
today we went to piha beach and karekare beach. karekare beach is where they shot ‘the piano’. but thankfully the beach is pure and unsullied by harvey keitels naked butt.
new zealand is like a time-capsule from 200 million years ago. if you’ve been here and walked around the new zealand rain forest you will understand what i mean. i’ve been to a lot of amazing places in my life, but new zealand is the most remarkable out of all of them. well, in its category. the american southwest is quite remarkable.
but it’s arid. new zealand is wet and fecund in the extreme.
if i sound like a simpleton it’s cos i’ve spent the day at these beautiful beaches and now it’s kind of late and i’m very sleepy.
so forgive my simpleton-ness.
someday i hope to come back to new zealand as a simple tourist.
i’m sure that i could give myself a month to roam around new zealand and never get bored. what a beautiful place.
standing on the beach with the wind and sand in my face while looking out over the waves is probably the closest i’ll ever come to feeling timeless and immortal.
moby