Stephanie (another student teacher at Forrest Hill from Indiana) and I rented a car and drove to the Coromandel Peninsula on Saturday. It was gorgeous!! The drive was extremely curvy going through the volcanic mountains but it was well worth it. We went to a winery for lunch and then headed to Cathedral Cove. Cathedral Cove (a large hole in a mountain along the coast) was not as cool as the hike there or the beaches we wandered to. The views here are indescribible. At night we went to Hot Water Beach which was also in Coromandel. Hot Water Beach is a small beach where magma that is still underground heats up water reserves which get pushed to the surface when the tide comes in and people dig baths to sit in. It was a neat experience but there were too many people in one small space. http://www.mercurybay.co.nz/activities/hotwaterbeach.phpOn Sunday, Justine and I went to the west coast. I signed us up to go to Piha on a canyoning excursion. http://www.awoladventures.co.nz/canyoning/ Justine was, well, surprised with what I had instore for us. It was a day full of abseiling/repelling down waterfalls, rock climing, jumping off cliffs, hiking, and climbing into and out of caves. It was thrilling!! My heart was racing the entire time and I'm positive I asked our tour guide if he was joking about a thousand times. "Are you joking? I'm not going head first and doing a handstand out of this tunnel." "You're kidding, right? I can't jump off of this cliff first!"
We got back late afternoon and I spent the rest of the day lounging at the beach next to my house. : )
I need to live by the coast, it's official.
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