Had another busy day and havn't had the camera out.. So had a look through my collage File.. This is a real reminder of summer and Christmas.. The red Flowered tree is the Pohutukawa tree commonly refered to as NZ Christmas Tree ( it flowers right on Xmas) The black sand beach is Kariotahi a surf beach on The West Coast near the Waikato river mouth.It is near here that the iron sand is mind that supplies the sand to the Steel Mill at Glenbrook..