This weekend was labour day weekend, a celebration of the eight-hour working day (how ironic that you celebrate it by not working!) It also happened to coincide with Simon's birthday.... and the result was the best weekend in New Zealand so far!!
We headed up to Cook's beach on the Coromandel peninsula (the 1st landing of both the Maori's and Captain Cook) where I had rented out a bach on the beach front for 10 people. Friday night was spent in awe of the place I'd managed to find and a few cheeky beers.
Saturday we decided to do a bit of a beach tour, starting at Cathedral Cove, an AMAZING beach on the east side of the Coromandel with a beach to rival the Caribbean. Stunning white sandy beach with arches carved out of the lava/pumice cliffs (Mum, hope you're proud that I was paying attention to the Geology!) Went swimming/played volleyball/rugby.....brilliant! Then we headed off to hot water beach where there are hot springs lying just under the sand. If you use a spade you can dig down and sit in your own little hot tub, weird, but cool (well, bloody hot!) That evening we had a few more games of volleyball on own little beach with a few beers in the sun, followed by a slightly drunken BBQ (our 1st on in NZ)
Sunday we had booked to go on a sea kayaking adventure. A day tour around the Coromandel coastline - stunning and a great day, if a little knackering. We had another BBQ that night, but it was a little more chilled due to the sheer exhaustion of the day.
Monday (bank holiday) we went in search of some surf, after a while we realised we were on the wrong coastline and decided to go for a nice walk instead.
Fantastic weekend - So much more I wanna do there. Hopefully back for Christmas.
Hope all is good back home.xx
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