Hi, it is Joseph here.
Shanti and Mike took us to the little beach where they had done a nude massage and then had sex in front of a stranger watching them from the cliff. This is in Letter 17 I think.
The area was in the Shakespear Regional Park, another park run by the organization I work for, the Auckland Regional Council. Since this was mainly farming land the Rangers ran the park as a farm instead of native bush as in my park and so, for the most part, things hadn’t changed much from when Shanti and Mike had been there many years ago.
Leaving the car park we followed the steep climb they took up to the ridgeline and along the old farm road until we came to the little-hidden valley. We took the track from the little-hidden valley down to the small beach set against the cliffs for most of its length. Of course, as we expected, this being a week day, the beach was deserted. We had not met or seen anyone all the way from the other bay and even back by our cars there had been hardly anyone around.
This was sure a beautiful little beach and being so sheltered, the cool breeze we had up on the ridge was now going high over our heads. Down on the beach, the air was still and warmed by the morning sun. It was so nice there and the water was just asking us to go swimming.