After heading North we made a quick stop in Rotorua, a really nice town as far as we saw, famous for its thermal baths, but we leafed through our rough guides and found the cheapest slash nicest we could find and decided to save ourselves for them!

Corromandel Peninsula was gorgeous, we went to the world famous hot water beach, which as the name suggests is a beach with hot water springs bubbling up from out of the sand and running into the sea! We passed numerous places renting out spades to dig your on hole and find your own spring, but instead we just went for a walk and paddled about where other people had already dug.

We headed right up to the tip of the peninsula armed with nothing but our car and our tent and a boot full of food! It was beautiful, one of the most isolated places we have been in N.Z. and we camped in a really pretty little campsite for a few nights, and one night we got given two fillets of fish freshly caught from the sea for our supper from the campsite warden and his wife, which was really nice of them, and tasted lovely!!!!!

We were given a beautiful sunset each night we were there as our campsite faced west toward the sea, and shade each morning until a sensible time to actually climb out of our tent as there was a big hill just behind the campsite!