Sunday, May 18, 2014

Coromondel Peninsula

On Friday, Dick and I drove to Thames, gateway to the Coromondel. That afternoon, we drove up the bay side to Coromondel town.


View of the Coromondel Range


On our chalet deck



Bird viewed from our deck


Bay coastline


View from the bay coastline




Hot tub we enjoyed at our chalet


Note the size of the maple-like leaves!

On Saturday, we went to the Pacific coast side. We stopped at Hot Water Beach, where for 4 hours (up to 2 before and 2 after low tide) you can dig your feet into the sand and literally find scalding water temps (up to 145 F!), so you have to be careful. People bring little shovels and dig themselves holes to sit in for hot tubs!


Ouch!


Finding a spot


Ah! Self-dug spa





From there, we went on to Cathedral Cove, a roundtrip 5 metre trek down the cliffs to a remarkable giant rock formation that is shaped like a giant cathedral archway. For some reason, blogger is not letting me upload my pics, so I will put them in the next post...


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