View on our walk

We woke up cold and damp, so headed straight off. We made our way to the Tongariro Park, even though the weather was grey it wasn’t raining, and in need of some activity we decided rain or not we should do a walk.

Silica Rapids

The main crossing (20km) was closed due to the weather, so we would have to miss that one. We did go on a nice walk though, up to Silica Rapids, around 7.5kms (2hrs).

Chris on the bridge

A bit hot and bothered from the climb

It was a very muddy walk

Chris in the hot pools

The boat

Chris just about to go out fishing

Woke up this morning to hear Chris and Ian’s excited plans to go sea fishing on Ian’s boat! Thinking this sounded like an awesome idea, I was soon informed that unfortunately this was a ‘boys-only’ trip and due to our car only having 2 seats in, I was out numbered and thus left behind to have some ‘me-time’ to catch up with things, which suited me just fine!

The sea

A little island

They came back quite a few hours later with 4 fish between them, 2 snapper and 2 kahawai ( a silvery kinda sea trout), which of course meant fish for dinner.

Fish number 1

Fish number 2

Fish number 3

Fish number 4

Rescue mission

Chris and all the fish they caught

They had a great time out on the boat but their fishing was impacted including having to rescue some guys that had run up on the rocks due to steering failure. In fact that boat had gone to pick up a snorkeller who was spear fishing and a shark attacked his fish. He got spooked and asked them for a ride back and then they broke down. A double rescue really!

written by  chrischarly on March 5, 2012 from Turangi, New Zealand
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Pretty river

River bed

After leaving Ian and Candy’s we headed up towards the Coromandel, finding a Doc site at Dickey Flat. Chris went for a fish, catching two trout but only babies so he returned them.

The little fish Chris set free

Thankfully Ian was kind and gave us the smoked kahawai that they caught yesterday, which we used half of and made into a lovely warm salad with poached eggs.

written by  chrischarly on March 6, 2012 from Dickey Flat, New Zealand
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We awoke to nice weather so decided to go on a nice walk from our Doc site along the River to Karangahawke gorge. Our plan was to see how we felt and if up for it, take a longer harder walk back.

Gorge

The views down from our walk

The walk was really nice following the River and through some tunnels made during the gold mining days. There was lots of interesting mining history and rail tracks which we followed through more tunnels.

At the gorge we stopped for a coffee and then headed back across the tougher route.

Check out the view!

It was pretty much uphill for a good hour; the views being spectacular, then along and down for a while.

Chris' new look

He found his sunnies, luckily

Cathedral Cove

We went to Hot Water beach today, which as the name suggests a lovely beach where there are hot freshwater springs under the beach. This brings literaly 100’s of people at low tide with spades in hand to dig their own hot pools.

A load of tourists

We chose to observe from a distance thus avoiding the crowds instead taking a lovely long walk the stretch of the beach and back.

A bird, I think from the seagull family

Nice beach

After hot water beach we headed to Cathederal Cove, which is ‘The Highlight’ of the Coromandal. On the signs from the carpark it said this walk was ‘Easy’ and takes 50 minutes each way. So we set-off from the car thinking we would make it there and back in under an hour if we were quick, stupidly without water or sun cream. We stopped at the first point, Gemstone beach which was a long way down off the track.

Awesome beach

Cathedral Cove

Me walking on the beach