Local art, Castlecliff

 We rode our bikes over to Castlecliff Beach...but the café was closed...well, everyone needs a break. 

The sand there is black, and there are heaps of driftwood of all sizes. 

One man has a garden full....he has had to reduce his stockpile as there was a fire, and that spread to a neighbour's property! Other people have been doing the same, on a smaller scale, but this is his...I am sure that I put pictures on here during a previous visit.

There were sculptures in front of the library

There were murals on the library walls...

And the bus shelter

And on the dairy walls...

It is stunning...but typical of a place where being an artist is not weird!

We avoided the main road back to our coach's house...but found the new industrial area to be. It is understandable that it should be away from Tsunami prone zones....but it is sad to see both good farmland and wetland areas disappearing.