Sunday, November 27, 2005
Coromandel Peninsula
From Auckland I drove south to the Coromandel peninsula and went to a hostel that was recommended to me by an English couple that I met in Waipu.
Opoutere was really nice and the beach there was really beautiful too. Just the weather didn't want to play along. The whole Saturday was accompanied by torrential downpours so stayed indoors and played card games and monopoly with a British family.
On Sunday I drove north to Whitianga picked up an American hichhiker on the way. We passed the hot water beach where you only have to make a shallow hole in the sand and you can feel the sand and the water getting hot.
In Whitianga we went to see the new Harry Potter movie in the smallest cinema (7 rows of chairs).
On the way from Whitianga to Coromandel town the road was very windy and suddenly there was a man standing in the corner of the road giving me sign to slow down. Turned out a car had overturned. There was no police or ambulance yet so I got out and asked if I could help. The lady who'd been driving the car was sitting by the side of the road and had a head and arm wound. She told me she just wanted to pick up the phone and before she knew it she had overturned the car. Luckily her little son was not hurt.
After giving her my towel so she could stop the bleeding on her arm a bit the ambulance arrived and I could continue to Coromandel town where I saw a very pretty sunset.
Opoutere was really nice and the beach there was really beautiful too. Just the weather didn't want to play along. The whole Saturday was accompanied by torrential downpours so stayed indoors and played card games and monopoly with a British family.
On Sunday I drove north to Whitianga picked up an American hichhiker on the way. We passed the hot water beach where you only have to make a shallow hole in the sand and you can feel the sand and the water getting hot.
In Whitianga we went to see the new Harry Potter movie in the smallest cinema (7 rows of chairs).
On the way from Whitianga to Coromandel town the road was very windy and suddenly there was a man standing in the corner of the road giving me sign to slow down. Turned out a car had overturned. There was no police or ambulance yet so I got out and asked if I could help. The lady who'd been driving the car was sitting by the side of the road and had a head and arm wound. She told me she just wanted to pick up the phone and before she knew it she had overturned the car. Luckily her little son was not hurt.
After giving her my towel so she could stop the bleeding on her arm a bit the ambulance arrived and I could continue to Coromandel town where I saw a very pretty sunset.
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