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A Guide for Small Town Newbies...............................5
Our Contributing Artists..............................................7
Cover Story - Earthscape Sand Artist Adorns
Coromandel Beaches ............................................8-15
Travel: Europe’s River Cruises.................................. 16
Colenso Cafe: Global Chef Returns Home.............. 18
The Power of Bone Broth..........................................20
Protecting Our Eyes ..................................................21
Our Healing Oils: Manuka and Kanuka ..............22-27
HMS Endeavour Makes the News...................... 28-31
Captain Cook’s Manuka Brews.......................... 32-33
Historic Whitianga Hotel ..................................... 34-35
The Coromandel’s Vivid Art Scene ....................36-43
Coromandel Calendar......................................... 44-45
Winter Specials from our Advertisers ......................46
Thames Folks Star as Crowd for Movie “Jean” ....... 47
Recipes and Cooking Competition ................... 48-49
Spotlight on Coromandel Communities ............ 50-53
Advertiser List with Web Links ................................54
COROMANDEL
What’s InsIde
Late aUtUMn / WInteR 2016 life
To help with that, Carol gave me a colouring
book with inspirational sayings and emailed
me lots of LOL videos (‘Simon’s Cat’ was
always good for a chuckle). Greg’s mother
posted me get well cards almost every week
for eight months – all different and uplifting.
I came across a quote from George Carlin,
American comedian, (may he RIP) that
brought a good belly laugh (see page 54).
I was also lucky enough to have a view of
ocean, estuary and Paku Mountain while
working. Now I hope to be out and about
soon enjoying more of this beautiful place.
Here’s Greg and I (below) doing just that – a
day out on the Hahei Explorer. We did not
have Cathedral Cove to ourselves as did
cover story sandscape artist, Andres Amador.
(See story page 8-11.)
Till Spring!
How fortunate we were to enjoy such a
long extended summer! It was easy to
start taking those continuing ‘Summer-
like’ days for granted, thinking they would last
forever. How wonderful to enjoy those walks
on the beach – warm sand and yes, even
warm water – all the way through May.
Here I am (above), on one of those gorgeous
days in April with Lorinne, a dear old friend
(old friendship that is) from Vancouver. She
travelled all that way to ‘nurse’ me back to
health after my surgery. (One of her friends
commented that I must have really wanted
her to come see me in NZ to go to such
lengths to get her here.) With her help I
bounced back better than expected and
continue to do so.
And to the others that helped on my healing
journey as well – many thanks for all the
prayers and blessings. I know they contributed
to the positive result achieved. One of the
doctors described me as “a mini-miracle that
had been clutched from the jaws of death”.
“Fun” became part of my strategy: think
positive thoughts, cross off a major bucket list
item (like a cruise around NZ), and experience
more laughter, hailed as the “best medicine”.