Heading East of Auckland across the flat plains to the cormandel peninsula we start by camping on the coast road to coromandel town just near the gold rush town of Thames. It v. much still has a wild west feel although strangely enough the first campsite has a butterfly house with all sort of species in. A number were imported from S.America an lo and behold the blue butterfly that we spent our honeymoon in Brazil trying to photograph was there, and this time we got him!!! (or her difficult to tell..) Drove out via East coast to visit Waikawau beach, but firstly happened upon Little Bay, a nice inlet for a swim and snorkel. We were v. dissapointed to find 2 people on it, as usch we move on to Waikawau itself, a moderate 10
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