After leaving our lovely Hairy Feet tour, we continued on to our FINAL (sniff, sniff) destination: the town of Thames, located at the southwestern foot of the Coromandel Penninsula. Our B&B, the Chartre Manor Lodge, is the house on the hill.....
Dennis and Paulette were amazing hosts.
...and the food was fabulous!
On our way to the Hot Water Beach, we stopped and hiked up to a viewpoint area:
Wow.
Once we arrived at the carpark for the Hot Water Beach, we had a walk through some great foliage:
The Hot Water beach is located in Mercury Bay on the east side of the Coromandel Penninsula, about 12 miles south of Whitianga. There are underground hot springs that are accessible between low and high tides. People come from everywhere with shovels and dig up their own natural hot tubs. It's crazy! And the water is really warm in the holes; there are lifeguards there to keep you away from the super hot water. The beach water, however, is refreshingly cold :)
Neither Cory nor I felt like sitting in the holes, so we walked along the beach, combing for shells and minding our steps to avoid these cute little jelly fish scattered all over the place....
Ahhhhh......just to relax and soak in the sun!
We also saw a lot of surfers....
We saw this poster on the side of a fish n/chips stand....it looked pretty real!
Pretty tame gulls waiting for compensation....
A few miles north of the Hot Water Beach was Hahei Beach, where we spent the bulk of the afternoon....it was glorious.
Random final picture.....hahahaha!
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