Hi everyone!
We've spent the last few days pottering around the Bay of Plenty and Coromandel Peninsula and have been having a nice relaxing time. The weather has been a bit dodgy so we haven't been able to enjoy the beautiful beaches as much as we'd have liked, although at least it was sunny on the day we visited Hobbiton, which was really pretty.
One of the places we'd been recommended to visit was the Hot Water Beach, which is a beach where if you dig a pool for yourself at low tide it gets filled by a natural spring of hot water, and you can happily lie back and relax as if you're in a bath. Unfortunately it was really rainy and windy when we were there, and even though it was low tide the waves still came crashing in and quickly filled in any holes we tried to dig! In the end we gave up with the shovels and just wiggled our feet below the sand, and sure enough it was pretty hot under there!
We're heading up towards the far north and the Bay of Islands this afternoon. We've got four days up there before we head down to Auckland on Sunday, and then after that we'll be off to South America, the last leg of our journey!
2 comments:
Well, you two just keep going with these amazing travel stories and photos. Half glad I'm off for a week next week to give my jealousy gene a rest. To test yours, I'll be in Barbados sunning myself for a week! Look forward to hearing more and catching up on my return. Take care both. Marc x
Hi Mark & June, Marianne Knowles here, still contracting at NU but up in sunny York for my sins. I've just been going through your blogg. Looks absolutely fantastic, so jealous I could scream....arrrrhhhh. Keep the pictures coming, they give up something to cheer us up while we're at WORK. I expect you've forgotten all about that nasty word.
Take care
Marianne
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