Got up early to go for a short walk to the cliff top at Wenderholm park where we were camped – great views and lots of interesting birds. Drove to the Coromandel Peninsula, just east of Auckland, and headed to hot water beach – where there are hot springs under the sand so at low tide you can dig your own spa!
We arrived at just the right time for digging, so hired a spade and took over maintenance of a hole that was being vacated by some Irish rugby tourists. You have to keep digging at the hole to get more hot water in, and eventually our enthusiastic digging made it too hot (one of the springs is 60 degrees C and the other is 67)! You couldn’t even walk on the sand around the pool because it was so hot!
After poaching ourselves for a couple of hours, we drove around the corner to Cathedral Cove where there is a natural rock arch, but we decided we didn’t have enough time to walk down to it before dusk, so we just went halfway down to Gemstone Bay.
Tonight we’re free-camping in the hills above the coast – no signs saying that we can’t so hopefully we won’t get moved on.
So much fun! Water's literally boiling innit!
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