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22 mars 2009

NZ-2009-Coromandel

Woke up early, not to miss the low tide. Just time to eat our last poor 3 toasts, talk 5min with a french turist and admire the morning and the view from the hostel terasse.

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Here we are, on the way to "Hot water beach". You first arrive at a large beach with white sand, surfer-waves and a bit of wind.

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Spades and surf boards, the 2 essential tools at Hot water beach

As you go along the shore, we got closer to the heated sand. Some kind of thermal veines where the water is at 65°C are just 50cm underneath the ground, and just with walking above them you can feel the heat. It just had to be during the low tide (twice a day) otherwise this part of the beach in underneath the ocean. You can rent spades at the beach parking, and you go digging your hot water pool, in which you should't forget to add a bit of ocean's water, otherwise you might look like a crayfish !

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So if ever go there, I give you a tip: If you walk on the sand and it burns, then Dig, otherwise not !! We have spent 20 minutes, at least, to dig here and there, thinking that if 1m further people had found hot water, we should as well. But that's not the rule, and you just have to find THE vein !

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1st try from Cheri

Not only it took us some times to have our pool, and I started to get annoyed, but it got worth when watching the people already laying there, I saw the "perfect familly" whom brought with them a "breakfast-picnic basket" with Champagne ! F*** how come, me "miss organization" could have not think about that ?!!?  I got so jealous and always thought about it along the trip ("where is my blooOOody Champagne ?")

But with a lot of labor, and "friendship" with a german girl, we also had burnt our bottom in our pool, facing the wavy ocean....Happyness !!

We had again witnessed that the world is so small (after I met David in Auckland): the german girl we met, was actually here on hollidays because her brother was going to the same conference than Cheri and his colleague......how funny ? ANd 3 days later and 700 kms further, our colleague was telling the story to the brother between 2 talks. When do we go on the moon to be a bit alone ?!?!

The hot pool chapter is not closed, yet. While we were completly lazy and warm, Cheri discovered that the ocean was much more fun and he came to take us out from our cosy pool "Come with me, it suck here, overthere there are waves, it is sooo cool !! COME !!" yeah, that's what happens when you go on hollidays with kids ;) so we folowed the big kid, and that was for good ;)

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No more time for kids' games, we are in the peninsula and shold be by the evening in Wellington !!  660 kms and 9h drive, let's go.

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We continued our race against time and curves, but we add a 3rd perturbating element: our colleague/friend !! At 1st he looks vert quite, but when he drives, this guy become a "F1 driver" with the option "no anticipation", "braking at the last seconde" and "no, I am not driving to much left" ! I was freaking out (and Cheri as well) and spent the rest of the trip on the back seat by using the excuse that the smallest shouldn't be on the front, and by this way I let Cheri on the side of the ravine. I still felt really stressed and I prefered to read than facing the danger at every turn (and God knows how much turns we had).

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You think I am exaggerating ?? How often did you scream in car, while the driver was passing a car and you thought that the distance was too short ?? It was the 1st time for Cheri and me. And of course, our driver kept his cool "why are you screaming ? That's all fine". Yeah right !

In the same style we had the truck: the guy didn't close properly its back door, and one turn out of 2 we could see the inside and all the stuffs that might fall down on us. Scary !

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left turn, no problem

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right turn...we are scared !

It has been a really tiring trip: Is that holidays ??

At mid-day we stop by Waihi beach which is also a surfer beach, but the weather was always changing and we didn't have much time so we didn't really enjoyed it.

On the Road again...this could have been our holidays title.

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A little stop by Taupo, a break for diner (and always good retaurant even in the middle of nowhere) and we arrived in Wellington at midnight. Ok I slept the last 2 hours, it was a never ending trip ! Thus we had the chance to pass by "MORDOOOOR", with the sunset and that was great.

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Finally here we are in our super hotel really posh, 5 stars, with our golden car *sic* and our backpacks, we didn't have the right look for such an hotel. Anyways we really enjoyed our room with the awesome view on the harbour....I guess I will appreciate the 3 days to come in Welli.

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ALL the pictures from these day are in the album "NZ-Coromandel"

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