Coromandel views...

Well I have stirred myself from langour to write something on the blog as I know you're all waiting out there with baited breath....
Maybe it's the geography of the place- very few roads, lots of big hills and water and not much else..or maybe it's because we're so relaxed in our heavenly surroundings, but we're finding it very difficut to get aout and about and DO anything this week! We did take a trip to the eastern side of the peninsula on the infamous 309 Road , an 'unsealed' (i.e. gravel) road, as always twisting and turning and the beautiful views synonymous with sheer drops in these parts...
On the way we stopped at the 'unusual' Waiou Waterworks, a shrine to a kiwi couple's creativity (OK, they're clearly bonkers!) with some fantastic heath robinsonesque sculptures and inventions mostly involving water and mostly interactive which was great fun for big and little kids alike. We got wet= had fun! Flying foxes and big swings, brilliant.

Also a trip to a glorious beach at Whangapoua, silky sand, wide blue sky and a howling wind which meant we didn't realise we were close to burning...just about got away with it.
Lots of nice walks, fossicking in the stream, stick insect hunting, cafe visiting...one more full day then we need to rouse ourselves for the final stages of our trip.