View from the deck

I woke this morning with the wind blowing hard in off the bay, and the rain steadily beating down. It was still dark. I thought: Bugger this for a lark, and stayed inside looking at blipfoto journals, until time to brew the coffee, and have my breakfast. Had a midday run, with minimal excitement on the photography front (it was a comfortable and pleasant unrained-on daylight run).

I had thought about this view yesterday and left it too late to take. Took it this morning with the Pentax which has a wide angle lens. Thus, it is possible to see the left hand side of the deck shown by the upright light coloured ply boards, while on the right the new planter boxes between the deck and the fence lead to the pergola (a replacement for the one that an angry child could have pushed over, so the builder said) through to the small grassed area leading to a narrowing point near the cliff edge.

Within the L, the ground slopes away quite sharply, the result of a landslip, which we are told was hundreds of years ago and has left the ground very stable. A little further away, and only about 10 metres from the tip of the narrow point, the cliff drops much more sharply down to the beach.

Under the pergola was an area which was not greatly useful before. With the new deck being higher than the old paving (by the previous owners), our intention is to create an area for children to play or adults to sit and talk; an outside conversation pit I might say, to show my age.

This is our unencumbered view of Kawau Bay, or one of them. The large Pohutukawa do both drop incredible numbers of leaves and flower debris onto the roof and into the gutters and block everything. A task to do is to find a way to stop that. The addition of the seat along the edge of the deck extension has already given pleasure to us both. Last weekend the two grandboys who were visiting turned it into a railway line and became steam engines.

We are happy here. Pity I have to go back to the City (tomorrow fortunately) in order to work.

EDIT: S has pointed out that the reflection of the legs of the deck edge seat makes it look as if it is some distance from the edge. An optical illusion, I assure you. It's right on the edge.

Also it looks more expansive large