Coromandel Travel Blogs

Great weekend away to Coromandel with few people from work. Stayed in Matarangi and visited New Chums Beach, Cathedral Cove, Hot Water beach and some waterfall.

Ok, I arrived in NZ on the 1st and it was now the 21st.  Three weeks had gone by and due to various teething problems I had only managed to visited Auckland and the northern region.  In my original plans I hoped to reach the south island by the 1st of Dec so I had to move on, fast!  …

A few cool photos of NZ, enjoy!

We had a bit of an easy day on day 2 , Bert was a little tired after day 1{s excitement so we let him off easy with only 69 km, mostly up and down mountains  though and pretty much in third gear ( mostly due to the mountains but i did forget to change for a while and as Bert is so understandin…

Finding Victoria. Many countries across the globe have honoured Her Majesty Queen Victoria and the Commonwealth. On my travels I will keep my eye out for various namesakes.

The world! Well 19% of it anyway

Just some pics of beaches around the world. Maybe some double up with pics I have already posted, but you can't get enough of a good beach in my opinion!

Toured New Zealand and helped Joe with his thesis project for 18 days.

I've never been much into fishing but I'm keen on doing things with friends so when my work section arranged a fishing trip to Coromandel I was a starter.We had two boats and plenty of bait to last the two days.I caught plenty of tiddlers so spent far too much time trowing them back but I did manag…

Currently a work in progress.... so many things that happend in 6 weeks thats its to much to write it all down at once. pictures are added with correct locations.. stories are coming soon.

Spent a week in a campervan travelling around the North Island of New Zealand. Went sky diving, absailing, caving, black water rafting.......

Amazing landscape, wonderful people and far far away

We took quite a while to get down to Coromandel Town and got to a really weird little hostel in a very "different" sort of town!  The drive down was in some pretty bad conditions (rain) and we listened to the funeral of Sir Ed Hillary, which was on most radio stations.  We didn't realise …

Today was a great day, so I decided to go and do a bit of driving to Coromandel. All the shows on tv all show Driving Creek Railway, that Barry (a Kiwi) has worked on for the past 20yrs (if I recall correctly). On the road into Coromandel (unsealed), there was a Kauri grove and also a waterfall, so…

One of the best years of my life; I met so many fantastic people and drove around an amazing country! I can't wait to go back one day.