dec 22

Today Mom, Dad, Paul, Yo and I were in The Coromandel and spent the day at the beach. Well, not just one beach but several.

First we went to the Hotwater Beach, near Hahei, just to look around and see what was going on. Hotwater Beach is really neat cause there's a hot water spring under the sand and the water at high tide. When we went there it was at high tide, so no digging in the sand for your very own hot tub in the beach, so we went off to see what else ther is.

Apparently there's a beautiful beach in Cathedral Cove which has this immense cave right on top of the beach. It actually goes right over the middle of the beach and there's two sides of it. When I get back to Wellington I'll have to upload some pictures.

Anyway it's a 45 minute walk from the carpark (what they call Parking lots in NZ) to Cathedral Cove, so we spent some time there before heading back to the car in order to get back to Hotwater Beach at low tide. But low tide wasn't until much later in the day (3:30 pm local time) so instead of going right to Hot water beach, we drove to a little town ferry and went across the way to Whitiangi (pronounced fit-ee-ang-ee). We went to Whitiangi because there is this bone carving place where you can carve your own bone sculpture necklace. Mom and Yo did that while Paul, Dad and I went off and wandered around Whitiangi. It's a nice little town, but I wouldn't want to live there. Anyway after 2 hours, we went back to the parked car by way of that Ferry, and headed back to Hotwater Beach.

As you may already know, I am an excellent digger. I like to dig in the sand, and build stuff out of the sand. So I took to making a hot tub out of the beach pretty naturally. That was a lot of fun. Even when the tide started coming back, cause then I had to dig more and more in order to keep the walls around the "tub" from falling in and to keep the cold water of the ocean from crashing into the hot water from the hole in the ground. After a few minutes of that I was sore and happy. I love using a shovel.

After all that we drove back to Whitiangi for supper and had Indian food at a place called Sangam. It was very very tasty. And after supper we drove for over an hout all the way back to Coromandel Town where we are staying.

That's it for now, keep frosty.