Grumpy'S Motel Whitianga

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A travel blog entry by lynnandkriss

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... only me who witnessed it so you always think you could have been mistaken and it was really an inept team of windboarders. We climbed and descended, balancing on narrow trails, pushing palm leaves out of the way to reach New Chums Bay – “one of the Top Ten Beaches in the world”. It was very impressive, a white sand crescent shaped bay surrounded by primeval forest and a flat shore which meant you could walk out for ages with the sea only ...

Whitianga

A travel blog entry by lieselbotha

... I raised an eyebrow and looked them up and down; taking in the rather nice looking spade that the one was carrying. Ah. “Why don’t you just dig here and make my pool bigger,” I suggested with a rather coy smile. They launched into the task with hands, feet, spade and wood, while I stood by and watched with a rather smug expression on my face. It turns out that they are from Israel and are driving around NZ for 3 months. They were hysterical, and the shrieks ...

Coastal beauty

A travel blog entry by tutzauer

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... the other hand, has beautiful green rolling hills, that
reminded us a lot of Southern Germany or Switzerland. We made it to
the town of Coromandel by lunch time and got some smoked mussels, for
which the region is well known. As expected, they were delicious!
The downtown of Coromandel is tiny, but very picturesque, so we just
spent half an hour by the harbor watching ...

The Stunning Coromandel

A travel blog entry by lou_james

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Hot Water Beach was the most surreal thing we have done so far. With a spade in hand we went down early to the beach, where a hot water spring comes up right in the sand. You literally dig your own hot pool in the beach!! Then sit back and listen to the ocean and occasionally a big wave comes in and wipes out your pool, so you just do it all over again! It was very cool and a bit strange at the same time, but an experience we ...

Bone Carvers

A travel blog entry by katie-jenny2011

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... with a zillion bunk beds shoved into it. We have our whole tour group staying in the same room tonight… should be interesting.

After checking in, we went to a bone carving workshop. Frist, we each choose the kind of bone we wanted to carve- 3 different choices which all had different meanings. Then, we were given a piece of bone with a pattern sketched on top of it. Next, we used little dentist carving tools to grind away part of one the bone. As we all we chipping our ...

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