Castles of Black Sand

Black Sand Temple, Piha, New Zealand … This sand castle we found, left by some other people, looks awesome doesn’t it? Looks more like a mysterious temple in ruins…

I’m running out of ideas to post. Might as well continue with posts on New Year beaches, since I’ve got another one saved up for some time now. This is Piha Beach, New Zealand. It’s one of the many black sand beaches near Auckland which my sister and her husband Daniel had been talking about bringing us to see, during our NZ family trip at the end of 2018.

We finally went to one, on the day after New Year 2019. That’s a day (or was it 2) before we were due to depart NZ for our long journey back home to Dubai. How we wished the holidays were longer… Anyway, here’re the photos.


Another view of the ‘sand temple’


We tried to build our own… but didn’t really manage to match that of the abandoned one we found…


Piha, North Island, New Zealand, from the road above – the rocky hill in the middle of the beach is called the Lion Rock


Lion Rock, Piha, New Zealand


Brrrr… It’s chilly. On a summers’ day!


“Daniel, meet Daniel”. Of all the names in the world, Kim had to end up with a guy having the same name as her dad… Well, it’s a small world… By the way, the sisters Kim and Hazel decided to bring little baby Skye to a beach nearer to home. So it’s the just the boys here… and Anu, ahem




Piha’s “Black Sand Beach”, New Zealand

There, another short photo post done in record time! That’s all for now. See ya soon!