We headed north to Whitianga and had a stroll around their Saturday market. Only a short drive further north and we were at Hot Water Beach. And the name says it all really. Just before low tide at 6.30pm we headed down to the beach with our rented shovel and dug ourselves a big hole in the sand. We weren't alone of course, there were about 40 people there. As the holes fill with water, you can bathe in them because the water is red hot - heated from the underground hot springs. You can actually see the water on the surface on the sand boiling which is pretty amazing really. You have to be quite careful as some of holes you excavate are actually too hot to sit in, or like ours where we had some cold water funnelling in which was cooling down our pool. It got dark pretty quickly so we headed back to hot showers and some food.
Anyway, there's nothing like that on Brighton beach!
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