After another great breakfast at Mecca, we picked up our hire car, checked out of our accommodation and trhen headed off just before 11:00 on the SH1 towards Hamilton. We turned off onto the SH2 and crossed over the new bridge at Kapu then headed on the SH25 to Thames, where we had a snack lunch at about 13:00. From there we took the coastal route to Coramandel - a very scenic drive along narrow twisting roads with "one lane bridges".
It's not realle obvious, but the estuary was green, presumably with an algal bloom.
At Coramandel we called into a shop to buy jandals and then took the shopkeepers advice not to take the narrow mountain track, but carried on the SH 25 to Whitianga, where we stopped for an ice cream at about 15:00.
Some more twisting Gurnsey-like driving and we arrived at our accommodation at Hahei just after 16:00.
Great view from our balcony.
Quick unpacking and a short walk down to the beack for a splash in the 25degree surf.
We stopped on the way back at the Luna cafe for a reasonably priced dinner.
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