Coromandel again!

So we decided to head back to one of our favourite places in New Zealand....COOKS BEACH!
Myself, Si, Jen and Sonia headed over on friday evening after work, stopped at a supermarket for supplies and arrived at Cooks beach at around 8pm. After chucking a few things on the BBQ we had a relatively chilled evening with a few glasses of wone.
The next day we headed over to Cathedral cove loaded with beach games and plenty of sunscreen. Spent the best part of the day chilling on the beach, playing games and swimming in the sea. Gem, James, Bea and Em joined us around 3.30pm after saving lives on the roads of NZ (they came across a motorcycle accident on the road) Spent another hour or so on the beach before heading back to Cooks beach to join Sonia who'd stayed back at the bach to work.
After getting back to the bach we all went down to Cooks beach with a few beers and had a lovely evening swim and chillout.
That night we had another BBQ before an alcohol fueled games evening.

Sunday we headed out and our 1st stop was at an amazingly picturesque vineyard, where we had a great wine tasting then over to Hahei to have a nice brunch followed by snorkelling at Gemstone bay. After snorkelling we chilled out on the beach together before heading back home.x

Fun in the Waikato region!

Our evening started with a quick nip over to Raglan to check out the surf. Got lucky this time and it was pretty good! Unfortunately we could only stay an hour as we had to get back to Hamilton as Gem, James and Bea were heading down to spend the weekend with me. Kicked the weekend off with a relaxing evening with a curry and a movie.

Saturday we had a leisurely start and then headed down to Te Kuiti to try climbing outdoors. Unfortunately Si was working so couldn't join us. Luckily we had 2 friends that are already climbers with their own gear that could show us the ropes (literally!) Turned out to be a fantastic day. Beautiful day, great company and a fantastic introduction to climbing (I even got a lead clmb in!)
Saturday evening we headed into town for a thai curry (2 curries in a row!!) then out for a few (too many) drinkies!

Sunday was again a leisurely start, but we finally got ourselves up and over to Raglan. After going for a nice brunch in town we headed to the beach to play games and have a surf. Unfortunately, due to the day being another scorcher we couldn't play our games on the sand as the black sand became burning hot - so we played in the sea instead - gutted!

Another great weekend,xxx