This morning I woke up in my bed in Auckland. And sat in a car for about three hours, driving along the coast line on long winding roads, narrowly avoiding large road-hogging trucks.
Tonight I'm going to bed in a unit in Wyuna Bay, Coromandel - home of... a bay, six tractors and a collection of fishing boats. Like the view?
Soon as we got here, we (aka me and the Canon DSLR) took a trip around the yard, having a look around this new temporary environment. It's quite cool, the unit has cute backyard filled with benches and knick-knacks.
Beach itself is lovely too. It's not necessarily a "tourist beach" beach, but more one for those who are boaties/kayaker fans. Because there are a lot of rocks, and I don't really enjoy swimming and playing on top of sharp rocks. (but hey, that's just me).
It's nice though, because the beach is definitely not one that everyone knows of, except the owners of the houses around here. I loved the look of this boat house when I saw it. Spoiled my shoes in the wet sand, but it was worth the shot.
And of course seeing the quiet beach out my window instead of loud and noisy tourists is a plus.
Anyway, first meal in the Coromandel - Fish and chips. We went out of Coro-Town to this place called the Mussel Kitchen where they serve hot mussels (amongst other things of course). But it comes at a price. This plate was around $14.
I don't even remember how much this mussel curry was, but it wasn't cheap either.
But the rest of Coro-Town is lovely. There's this sort of rustic quality to it. But I guess that's what some people would call outdated, or old. Probably doesn't help that the town is super small. Much smaller than I was expecting. Small = limiting. Especially with food choices as they seem to enjoy hiking up the prices of stuff here. Bought a pizza to takeaway for dinner tonight: $16. And this was a small sized Hawaiian pizza. With shaved ham. (Sorry, don't have a picture of this, but here's a picture of the town).
Anyway, this town is full of cute little quirks. For example, saw this sign on a 4 Square noticeboard.
And this was outside an Arts Space store. I feel this should be in front of every women-focused retailer. (And call me nerdy, but I love the striking contrasts of colour.)
This post is going to end very adruptly now, as I'm being rushed to go to bed. But overall, Coro-Town is nice. But there's not a great deal going down here. It's pretty, but not overly fascinating/lively at every turn. I feel these two birds could sum it up best:
Bird 1: Nope. But my leg is asleep.
