Hola fellow blog readers. I am still a few days behind; this blog time happened on Saturday, October 24th while we drove from Auckland to Coromandel. The drive was so beautiful so we stopped a bunch of times to take pictures.
As you drive along the coast, the road kept weaving towards and away from the mainland and each time it did that, we would get an awesome view like this.
The road also did a lot of up and down action and there were some beautiful lookouts like this one.
This is the town of Coromandel. We stopped at this place and I got a lamb burger and Sarah got a Hawaiian burger. I was immediately disappointed in myself for not getting fish since we were so close to the ocean (it was right across the street).
We decided to go on a hike into a beautiful, secluded beach called New Chum's Beach. It was really difficult to figure out the way to the trail head. We stopped and asked for directions several times, and everyone we asked said that we should just follow the signs and that everything would be well-marked, but there was never a sign EVER!! This is a picture from the beach from which you start your hike.
More from that beach.
Once we got to the beach, it was late enough in the afternoon that the sun wasn't even on it anymore. In fact, we passed a lot of people on their way back from the beach. One German man asked us why we were still going there. "Do you like the cold?" he asked us. He was right. Once we got there, it was too cold to swim. :(
Here is a picture I took on the way back from the beach. The camera Andrea gave me takes great pictures! :)
As you drive along the coast, the road kept weaving towards and away from the mainland and each time it did that, we would get an awesome view like this.
The road also did a lot of up and down action and there were some beautiful lookouts like this one.
This is the town of Coromandel. We stopped at this place and I got a lamb burger and Sarah got a Hawaiian burger. I was immediately disappointed in myself for not getting fish since we were so close to the ocean (it was right across the street).
We decided to go on a hike into a beautiful, secluded beach called New Chum's Beach. It was really difficult to figure out the way to the trail head. We stopped and asked for directions several times, and everyone we asked said that we should just follow the signs and that everything would be well-marked, but there was never a sign EVER!! This is a picture from the beach from which you start your hike.
More from that beach.
Once we got to the beach, it was late enough in the afternoon that the sun wasn't even on it anymore. In fact, we passed a lot of people on their way back from the beach. One German man asked us why we were still going there. "Do you like the cold?" he asked us. He was right. Once we got there, it was too cold to swim. :(
Here is a picture I took on the way back from the beach. The camera Andrea gave me takes great pictures! :)
2 comments:
...great pictures... Thanks for sharing..also, the narrative is great too!!
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