Passion for Paritutu

Our family has found a new passion: Paritutu Rock. 

Its a huge rock that juts straight up out of the coast above our city. We were introduced to it by the Ellingtons, a family that we have made good friends with through my dad's work. The first time we hiked the quarter-mile, vertical trail to the top was with them last Saturday.

 

 After enjoying the awesome view from the top we ran back down the trail, and then worked our way around a very forbidding fence down to the beach. We found seals!

 Those of us that went up enjoyed it so much that we decided to do it again for family home evening, and to take dad with us.

This time we made sure we were on top for the sunset, and it was so pretty!

I was Sagey's buddy on the way down. We had lots of fun racing the other kids, and she didn't even need my help once!