Coromandel – Feb. 6, 2007

To all reading…please put your last name…a few of you have the same first name. Except “Mom!”

We headed to Warkworth from our SCUBA trip and stayed at the Sandspit Holiday Park. It was windy as hell that night. The papers the next day had a huge headline that read “Waikato Weather Bomb!” We rose the next day, and got Jess her caffeine fix (and Jonathan had his sugar fix) at a cool cafe where they made their own honey and you could watch the beehives. Pretty SWEET. Yes, that was a pun.

We had lunch in Thames, a quaint little town on the coast, and headed to Coromandel Town after that. The weather was still crappy, but there were periods of sun and the countryside, as usual, was just gorgeous.

We stayed at the Coromandel Holiday Park, which was pretty nice, and walked in the rain into town to have a beer at the local pub. We came back to camp and made grilled cheese for dinner with some awesome cheese we got at a local cheese shop…Dutch chile cheese and New Zealand goat cheese. Of course Jonathan had to try the blue cheese as well. Added some fresh NZ avocados, and we had ourselves a nice little meal.

Did some laundry and went to bed. Thank God we did not pack 2 weeks of clothes…we would have had about 9 suitcases each.

~ by jboehman on February 7, 2007.