Easter Road Trip Part 2 (Coromandel)
May 3rd 2009 Sat 11th April 2009 cont.
We drove to Coromandel town via Waihi Beach on the Bay of Plenty and at the base of the Coromandel Peninsula. We continued up north and through the Karangahake Gorge - the scene of the north island's first gold rush. It was also around here that the British and Maori fought in the New Zealand wars.
We made a stop in Paeroa to get our photo taken with a giant bottl
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