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Another day, another outing. (This is several days ago...)
Leaving Auckland for our destination of The Hot Water Beach, on the East coast of the Coromandel Peninsula, due East of Auckland, just South of Whitianga, North of Whangamata.
There is an underground hot spring which can be forced to show itself simply by digging a shallow hole in the sand!
The hot water filters up through the sand, utilized by locals and tourists at low tide.
We went directly across the peninsula over the Kauaeranga mountain hills and valleys and through the forests until we emerged to the coast and found our way to our destination.
It was raining pretty hard when we arrived, but we hoped that it would clear up and soon, it did.
One interesting thing was that on the way we had tuned in the radio which claimed that low tide would be at 12:50 PM, and that was exactly the time that we parked the car there!
The second coincidence was that after the sun came out and we had walked down the beach to where some brave people had been steaming themselves in the hot water, and taking innumerable pictures, we decided that we would drive up the hill, which eventually came back down to a different beach access with a small town, and there was a chaulkboard sign out in front of where they rented shovels.
The sign claimed that low tide that day was at 1:50 PM. I looked at my watch and it was exactly 1:50 PM!!!
We got back to the main road where we had to decide to go on around to the North and thence across the top of the peninsula East, then South along the inlet called Firth of Thames. Both the Waihou and the Piako Rivers empty into the Hauraki Gulf which showed on our map as this fanciful Firth.
As we decided to travel around the peninsula, we got to see some of the most gorgeous landscape I believe I have ever seen!
The Town of Thames, bordering the Firth, is a quaint old goldmining town, and if we had had more time, we would have stopped into the goldmining museum there, but by this time it was getting late afternoon and we knew we had to get up early in the morning for work, so we continued on, finally arriving back to the hotel in Auckland in time for a big steak dinner.
After the initial rainy weather, we had been blessed with beautiful sunny skies and not-to-missed scenery.
I am very lucky to have had these experiences.
Leaving Auckland for our destination of The Hot Water Beach, on the East coast of the Coromandel Peninsula, due East of Auckland, just South of Whitianga, North of Whangamata.
There is an underground hot spring which can be forced to show itself simply by digging a shallow hole in the sand!
The hot water filters up through the sand, utilized by locals and tourists at low tide.
We went directly across the peninsula over the Kauaeranga mountain hills and valleys and through the forests until we emerged to the coast and found our way to our destination.
It was raining pretty hard when we arrived, but we hoped that it would clear up and soon, it did.
One interesting thing was that on the way we had tuned in the radio which claimed that low tide would be at 12:50 PM, and that was exactly the time that we parked the car there!
The second coincidence was that after the sun came out and we had walked down the beach to where some brave people had been steaming themselves in the hot water, and taking innumerable pictures, we decided that we would drive up the hill, which eventually came back down to a different beach access with a small town, and there was a chaulkboard sign out in front of where they rented shovels.
The sign claimed that low tide that day was at 1:50 PM. I looked at my watch and it was exactly 1:50 PM!!!
We got back to the main road where we had to decide to go on around to the North and thence across the top of the peninsula East, then South along the inlet called Firth of Thames. Both the Waihou and the Piako Rivers empty into the Hauraki Gulf which showed on our map as this fanciful Firth.
As we decided to travel around the peninsula, we got to see some of the most gorgeous landscape I believe I have ever seen!
The Town of Thames, bordering the Firth, is a quaint old goldmining town, and if we had had more time, we would have stopped into the goldmining museum there, but by this time it was getting late afternoon and we knew we had to get up early in the morning for work, so we continued on, finally arriving back to the hotel in Auckland in time for a big steak dinner.
After the initial rainy weather, we had been blessed with beautiful sunny skies and not-to-missed scenery.
I am very lucky to have had these experiences.
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