Keeping the magic alive.

John and I had a fantastic holiday up North. Oh, how do I love to be in nature and live the simplest of lives. We bring a minimum of stuff with us and yet we live very comfortably.
Having little means less time to clean and tidy up and it leaves a lot of time for play. And playing we did.

After my cups of coffee, we get up and look at the weather.
Mostly it was fine in the mornings, so we pack some food, launch the kayaks and around the harbour we go in our trusted little boats.
I love the kayaks.
We silently glide through the water, sometimes as calm as a mirror, and it is magic letting the current push us forward.

And that is what we do most days, gliding through the water, being relaxed, letting the day unfold and having an enormous sense of well being.
And what gets me the most is that being totally relaxed allows the whole holiday to become one long string of events which unfold with ease and grace that is absolutely magic.
I shall share one of them.

As part of our lifestyle-sailing project we planned to photograph as many different boat features as possible.
Before we went I found on a sailing website articles written by a couple that have been living on a boat for 43 years.
And that famous couple have a mooring somewhere right here in our own Bay of Islands.

You can imagine that I would love to meet them and their boat. The challenge was to find them.
So I figured out roughly where their mooring was and put out the desire to meet them.

Then on one of our trips while launching the kayaks we asked a local if they knew the boat we were looking for. They did, told us where it was and off we went. We find the boat, but locked up and with nobody at home. Shame, but we take photos and move on.

And then magic unfolds.
With the weather changing, John suggests to return to the boatramp earlier than planned.
We arrive back at the landing and there is a couple unloading supplies from their car into a dinghy.
It was the famous couple.
They had been told that we were looking for them and then invited us on their fantastic boat. John and I had the time of our life hearing their stories and seeing their great inventions and designs.

It was the highlight of the holiday and it unfolded so easily and magically.

Now I am at home. I have more dishes and more stuff to clean and less nature around me.
After my coffees in the morning John and I are not launching the kayaks to glide away with.
I launch the computer and dive into cyber space.
However I have become aware of that enormous sense of wellbeing that being relaxed and going with the flow is causing. I also know that that feeling of well being is causing the miraculous.
I want to keep it. So far I have.

For more photos: http://www.wilmasblog.com/photos/