{"id":574,"date":"2010-03-14T20:58:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T04:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heynadine.com\/?p=574"},"modified":"2010-03-14T20:58:35","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T04:58:35","slug":"hahei-and-cathedral-cove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/hahei-and-cathedral-cove\/","title":{"rendered":"Hahei and Cathedral Cove"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey Guys, so today starts the first part of my North Island tour! Now I’m not gonna be doing the whole north island because I am going to be heading east and then back to Auckland.<\/p>\n

\"Cathedral<\/a><\/p>\n

So we left Auckland bright and early to head east to Hahei <\/strong>in the Coromandel Peninsula<\/strong>. Again, I am traveling with Stray,<\/a> encase you haven’t already noticed the pattern. It’s because I bought a Stray Everywhere<\/strong> bus pass, which is their largest and most expensive pass you can get. It cost me about $1150 NZD or about $875 CAN.<\/p>\n

HOWEVER, this pass is valid for a whole year, and I can use it as many times as I like! ( apparently some guy did the circuit 4 time!) The pass covers just about everything exciting\u00a0 or worth visiting in New Zealand. How it works is as a hop on hop on whenever you like, so if you really enjoy a spot you can hope off and spend some extra time. There are 2 other hop on hop off bus companies in New Zealand, Kiwi Experience<\/a> and Magic<\/a>, I just happened to go with Stray.<\/p>\n

Anyways, so our first stop was at this place called Hot Water Beach<\/strong>. Where when the tide is out you dig into the sand where their is a natural spring that runs out into the ocean and thus create yourself a pool of hot water.<\/p>\n

\"Hot<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Digging<\/a><\/p>\n

Unfortunately for us we fail at achieving a decent hole to make our own pool so we just commandeered someone else’s pre-made pool.\u00a0 Don’t you just love that word, Pirates of the Caribbean <\/em>FTW!<\/p>\n

After our hot pool stop we headed to Hahei and took a stop off at Cathedral Cove.<\/strong>\"Cathedral<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Cathedral<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Cathedral<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Cathedral<\/a><\/p>\n

You have to hike in about 40 minutes to get to Cathedral Cove, however\u00a0 it can easily be done in sandals and there is only one really tough stair part.<\/p>\n

One really cool thing one of my fellow travelers pointed out was that this beach was apparently in the Narnia film, Prince Caspian<\/em>. I guess I’ll have to do some double checking!<\/p>\n

\"Cathedral<\/a><\/p>\n

Hehe this is the best photo of the day, there was this rock in the water that remained me of the Little Mermaid<\/em>, so I thought I would take a photo!
\n\"Little<\/a><\/p>\n

So to end of the day we actually had a huge BBQ where we cooked up burgers, steaks, sausages, made 3 different types of potatoes, and then this huge fruit salad which literally contained every single fruit you could possibly think of! I thought it was pretty great start to my trip .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cathedral Cove, New Zealand. <\/b><\/i> The first part of my North Island tour starts at the beach!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[576,810,1271,1393,1590,1686,1935,1970,2116,2558],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-cathedral-cove","tag-travel","tag-hahei","tag-hot-water-beach","tag-kiwi-experience","tag-little-mermaid","tag-narnia","tag-new-zealand","tag-photography","tag-stray"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}