After only one full day in Auckland Brett and I decided that it was time to do some surf-chasing, so we stocked up on groceries and headed over to Whangamata, a little beach town on the Coromandel Peninsula. As Murphy's Law would have it, the ocean was completely flat, and remained that way (much to our dismay) for the entire four days that we stuck around - despite our religious checking of it each and every morning and afternoon. So, to keep the 'no waves' depression from sinking too far in, we came up with ways to entertain ourselves. We set up in a nice campsite in a place called - interestingly enough - Wentworth Valley. There was a nice trail out of the campsite up to a beautiful, high waterfall. We wandered down to the
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