Flaxhaven Lodge
995 Purangi Road, Whitianga
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Flaxhaven Lodge Whitianga

995 Purangi Road Whitianga, The Coromandel, North Island, 3591, New Zealand

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Weather Bombed

A travel blog entry by operationwalrus

20

... steak went down an absolute treat, especially when accompanied with a perfectly chilled beer and some great company. A good way to start our Coromandel experience for sure!

We had a quiet night in the caravan, getting to know each other and exchanging various travel stories. It’s amazing how hungry for travelling we still feel, every destination someone mentions that we’ve not been to get us talking excitedly! We rediscovered a ...

To Port Jackson and back...

A travel blog entry by matthewandlorna

119

... us moving. I guess it's not much of a novelty being held up by sheep in these parts but for us it seemed like a quintessential New Zealand experience.
As the sun lowered we finally made it to the very basic DOC site we were aiming for called Fantail Bay. We had enough time to have a bowl of cereal for dinner before we realised the sun would now be on the horizon and sinking fast. We took our drinks and quickly headed down from the campsite to Fantail Bay ...

Whitianga

A travel blog entry by lieselbotha

... when the water became too hot were rather shrill... Eventually we had a nice looking spa bath and I borrowed somebody’s bucket so that we could scoop some cooler water out of the sea to cool things down a bit. Finally, after much toe dipping and foot hopping, we declared our pool ready for use. We lay like roasted pink sausages in the water; and every now and then one of the boys would yelp and leap up as another spurt of boiling water made its way through the sand. A ...

Coromandel Town

A travel blog entry by lieselbotha

8

... German boy was arguing with the driver – he didn't have his reservation number or something. He insisted that he had paid, however, the driver simply threw up his hands and said, "Hey man, it’s not my problem. I just drive the waka". Ho ho ho. A waka is the Maori word for a canoe.
The views from the bus were nice – considering it wasn’t raining this time. As we went past a church, I noticed that one of their religious messages that are usually painted ...

Spectacular Coromandel

A travel blog entry by spoggle

8

... of the trickiest roads I’ve seen, and in my time I’ve driven some tricky roads. All tarmacked fine, but there were some bends that were so tight, the signs advised you to slow down to 25kph for them, we were constantly climbing or descending and it was raining too. However, none of this was the reason the road was really tricky to drive. It was the scenery. It was simply stunning. Gut-wrenchingly beautiful vistas lurking around ...

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