Hot Water beach (Martarangi) Wow You drive for an hour or so from Martarangi, you pull into a car park in front of a beach , just a normal looking beach with one exception everyone has a big spade with them and I mean the type you would use in your garden. You carry on down the beach and see lots of big holes in the sand and people sat in them. Hot water pools! You just dig a little hole to see if you can find some hot water if you strike lucky, you build a...

New years Eve, I travel for about 4 hours to a place called Martarangi quite a long drive as the maximum speed is only 60mph and the roads just go for ever, so it gets really boring, on some of the roads you can let go of the wheel and still not have hold of it 3k later! But eventually you get to some really windy roads and a biiig hill a 3km road that climbs 500m just out side the Coromandel Choice road for cycling!! For New Years Eve, we had a really ni...