One of the places Laura and I stayed maybe a week and a half ago or so was a place called Whitianga (pronounced fitianga). It was a small town in the Coromandel region. So the first full day we were there we decided to take a bike ride to a place called Cathedral Cove, and then a little farther down, a place called Hot Water Beach. We were really excited about hot water beach because at low tide, you can go and dig big holes in the sand, and they fill up with hot water and make a sort of natural hot tub for you to sit in.
So we rented bike in the morning and set off. What we didn't know was that it was actually a 20km bike ride up and down huge hills just to get to the entrance of the HIKE to Cathedral Cove which we were also not aware of. So we finally got there, and it was a gorgeous beach and so we stayed and took some pictures and it was great.
THEN, we walked back to our bikes, and just as we were headed down to Hot Water Beach, an awful thunderstorm started and we were stuck riding bikes back in the pouring rain and lightning, so we decided to stop at a winery and hang out and hope the rain let up. But it didn't... fortunately for us these 2 nice women in the winery offered to toss our bikes in their car and gave us a ride at least back to the ferry to get back to Whitianga. It was not a fun day.
So then we left and took a bus to Rotorua, which is sorta the tourism capital of NZ. It is the most visited place out of the whole country. There is a ton of Thermal activity here, geysers, hot springs, and stinkiness..... the place stunk of sulfur. So we spent a few days here cause we were sick of traveling, but overall, the only stuff there we wanted to do cost and arm and a leg so we left without seeing much of anything. The only thing we did was take a walk around Lake Rotorua and saw some of the hot springs and mud pools around there.
This is one of the black swans on Lake Rotorua. I was playing with them and the HUGE ducks until one of them bit me. and then i stopped
they're ugly
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