22/1/15

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Thursday 22/1/15 Today was a whistle stop tour of the Coromandel Peninsula starting with a slightly overpriced visit to a water garden, however the fact that they had excellent gluten free cake in the cafe made up for it. And the gardens were nice with a perfect picnic spot by a waterfall. Pity it was early and we had no picnic! The big highlights of the coromandel are cathedral rock and hot water beach both of which we missed, the tide was too high for the beach and we were beginning to panic about the rapidly reducing fuel level in the car so cut the corner with the Rock and headed for a petrol station. We had lunch in Coromandel Town and had a fantastic drive over the hills stopping off at a couple of awesome beaches for a walk along their near deserted stretches. Decided to have tea in Tiaru in case Thames was shut when we got back but not much there and ended up with fish and chips in the car park!

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