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Its now Tuesday we are up at the crack of dawn to go to Hot Water beach where you can dig your own hot pool..pretty awesome...would have been awesome if they weren't re-doing the road so people couldn't get down to it!!! dang! So we climbed Mount Paku instead..its a great walk up and from the top you can Tairua and along Pauanui beach and all that surrounds it!! Pretty spectacular! We then drove to a nature reserve called 'Opoutere' ...a walk through native bush and rainforest and you get to a gorgeous beach...endless white sand and quite rough blue sea! Pretty impressive against a backdrop of a rainforest! The walk back was quite tough to say the least..rick had a panic attack thinking some creature was attacking him flung his head round, his glasses went whizzing across hit me in the chest..i panicked thinking it was a bat and screamed my head off then a plank of wood shot through my birkies and gashed my big toe :o( 'twas very amusing after...tho my toe stung like a mother!! But despite me wanting to be airlifted out i decided to plod on and walk ;o)
Tonight's stay is at Top 10 resort Waihi Beach...we drove to Waihi and stopped at a Gold Mine which had been blown out so you could see each layer all the way down...pretty impressive!! There were 175kilometres worth of tunnels dug out ...impressive as they were done only with pick axes!! Another walk, this time round a blown out bombed type church then onto the campsite.....and what a campsite it was.....swimming pool, SLIDE, top appliances in the kitchen and a lovely dining room...very swish...we dont wanna leave!! The slide was awesome!!! Tomorrow its walking (again with the walking) round a gorge...going to Paeroa..then to Tauranga...if we must.... :O)
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