Today is ANZAC day and we all got up at 5am to join the thirty or so locals for their dawn service. The service started some years ago when one of the locals used to climb the short distance up to a set of memorial gates with his daughter to remember his father.
The Seddonville Memorial Gates
He was asked by another local if he would like company each year and gradually over the years it has turned into a regular ANZAC day event with more and more locals attending.
We were assured we were welcome and turned out for the remembrance service. It has grown now to have 3 pipers and a drummer who travel up from Westport and a trumpeter from Carters Beach.
The day started crisply cool as we formed up on the road about 500m down the hill from the gates. We set off behind the pipers and were treated to a nice informal remembrance service at the gates. Following the reading of a couple of poems the ode and the playing of Reveille we filed back down the hill and returned to the hotel for a welcome drambuie made and supplied by one of the local residents. This was followed by a lovely cooked breakfast.
A nice way to remember the fallen from all wars.
After another lazy morning we drove down to the Mokihinui Estuary on another beautiful West Coast day.
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