March 2020 - Coromandel Peninsula
The Coromandel Peninsula is full of beautiful beaches and scenic cliffs. First we went to Cathedral Cove, which is a beautiful cove at the end of a hike along the cliffs. Then we went to hot water beach - you dig down a foot or so, and run into a hot spring, and can create little hot tubs on the beach. It took some figuring out to get the temperature just right, but it turned out great!
The Coromandel Peninsula is full of beautiful beaches and scenic cliffs. First we went to Cathedral Cove, which is a beautiful cove at the end of a hike along the cliffs. Then we went to hot water beach - you dig down a foot or so, and run into a hot spring, and can create little hot tubs on the beach. It took some figuring out to get the temperature just right, but it turned out great!
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| Looking out to sea, many small islands | The cliffs of Coromandel | |
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| Cathedral Cove - one of the most photogenic places I've ever been | ||
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| The rock tower left a beautiful reflection on the sand | ||
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| The lovely sand beach | The cavern | |
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| The cavern from the other side | ||
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| The cove on the other side of the cavern | ||
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| Hahei beach | Down on the sand at Hahei beach | |
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| A pair of variable oystercatchers at the cove | The black morph | |
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| The white morph | An eastern rosella | |
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| A New Zealand pigeon (endemic) | ||
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| A Eurasian blackbird | Hot water beach. You dig down a little and reach pipin hot water | |
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| In our beach hot tub | The beach past the hot tubs | A silver gull (red-billed variety) observing the madness |