Endeavour Motel Whitianga
122 Buffalo Beach Rd. Whitianga, The Coromandel, North Island, New Zealand
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Let's get to a city
... would have proved an impossible distraction and would have taken away from the pleasure of seeing gannets arrowing into the ocean. There were to be Orca this day, although I didn’t see them. In search of the pathway through the bush to New Chums Bay I had doubled back along the beach sure we had missed it. I turned to see LK jumping up and down waving her arms.
LK: How thrilling, there were Orca flicking up their tails and blowing water spouts, but ...
Whitianga
... surprised by this because I was next to other people who had steam coming out of theirs. I soon realised that the area in which you can dig is only about 50m wide, so I moved up closer to the rocks and started again. Soon the soles of my feet were pink from the heat, and I had nice scorching fingers. Cool! Digging a hole that fills up with boiling water is rather hard. At that moment three boys arrived and asked me where they should be digging. The beach had suddenly become ...
Coastal beauty
We got an early start in the morning
and left Auckland, heading east to the Coromandel Peninsula. Our
first stop was Pak'n'Save Supermarket, a local chain, and stocked up
on canned food, water and other goodies. We drove along the western
coast of the peninsula, which kind of reminded us of some areas along
Highway 1 in Northern California. The inland portion of the
...
The Stunning Coromandel
... was meant to be a super awesome fishing spot....! The walk there was hardly a track and the climb down to the rocks at the end was more like abseiling down a cliff face, but the early morning sunshine made it worth it. Again we didn’t catch anything (seem to think we are doing something wrong!) but it was good fun just chilling on the rocks! We had a touristy day planned for the next so drove to the infamous Hot Water Beach area to camp for ...
Bone Carvers
... in some parts, and pink soil/rock in others.
Back in the car we went. Our drive today was another very windy trip. Poor Katie was not handling the roads all that well, and had to literally poke her eyes out so that she could focus on something other than her sick feeling in her tummy. She did manage to survive though. What a tough little cookie she is!
We finally arrived in Whitianga (pronounced fit-e-an-go) where we are staying tonight. Our hostel is a nice little ...


