trip to coromandel part 1

27-29 February

A trip to Coromandel .... (Part 1)

How it came about?

Bike trip was cancelled. We were too tired to bike after the busy lantern fest weekend. Not many people were keen. Couldn't find any girls to go. I didn't really have any mood to plan for another trip. But thanks to jeremy who helped me with planning the trip to Coromandel, writing out the itinerary, checking out the pinnacles walk, hiring the car ... it was well on the way!

The travellers: Jeremy, Roger, Sharvin, Me, Celest, Pui Li and Naomi

27th

The day started off with us shopping for groceries at Pak n Save in Manukau. The van .... it's a 7 seater, fluorescent green van. Yes... you got me right... FLUORESCENT GREEN. How striking!!

After getting our groceries and fuelling up, the journey to coromandel begins. On our way to coromandel town, we made many stops. For what? Because.... quote jeremy....."teck teck teck!! (take take take!!)" ....

I'll let the photos do the talking.

After all the photo taking stops, we headed to Coromandel town, wanting to see what it's like.

There weren't much to see at the town. We just made a 5 minutes stop, took a photo and then headed to our backpackers - The Cats Pyjamas. Cool name eh?

We checked in, bought chicken for dinner and then off to High Zone. What is High Zone?

Again, photos will do the talking (you can see that I am rather lazy eh? Hehehehe.. no time la!!!)

$65 bucks. It was worth it. The key to it is ... don't think, just do it. I managed to do all of them except for the Leap of Faith. I have to admit, I really doubted myself before I jumped. I guess if you don't believe in yourself and have faith, you won't be able to reach it. So yeaa...lesson learnt ;) There's always a next time!! Best one was the High Swing. Awesome shitzz!! Love the free fall effect. And apparently, it's better than Swoop. so yea.. good choice, I saved heaps of money in not doing that. Haha!!

After all the adrenaline rush, we then headed to hot water beach. We were behind our schedule but still managed to reach there before the high tide came.

The water at some spot were HOT! And when I say hot, I mean it! So hot that you can't really soak yourself in there. Boiling wei!! There were a couple of times where I just started jumping around. But yeaa... all good. In the end, we managed to find a good spot to just lie there and relax.

When the tide came in, it started flooding the hot water spots which forced us to get out and head back to our backpackers.

For dinner, we had pasta. Was still hungry after that. Not enough chicken. But gotta just leave with it. Had a drinking game after dinner but the joy was killed halfway after a grumpy old lady came out and told us off for being too noisy. *sigh* We already apologized but she still went on scolding. urghhh...

28th
The morning started at 8am where roger and I headed to woolworths to get chicken while the others were preparing the eggs and packing lunch We got two whole chickens. Bwahahahaha!!! Breakfast was awesome. Sher Mayne's tummy = Very very happy tummy. We had scrambled eggs, toasts and heaps of chicken. Happy happy.

After breakfast, we then headed to Cathedral Cove.

Before our walk to the cove ...

this actually looked as if they were staring at a picture

... and sharvin says: "wahh... i didn't know i look so cool :p

During the walk...

i blame exhaustion and the heat...

the girls...

jump jump... who's leg and ass is that? Hint: i was the one who took the photo

When we arrived....

Roger was so happy that he started *ahem*-ing the rock. I actually have a video of this but... i'll be nice and not put it up.....

The day was hot and if only we had more time, I would so go into the beach and swim!!! So tempting but we had to rush for the pinnacles walk at Kauaurenga Valley in Thames.

To be continued ...