From Papamoa Beach we headed north to Waihi Beach (can you see a pattern here?) We took advantage of another stay 2 nights, get one free deal. We were across the road from the beach and parked right next to the new facilities and the pool. Liam had a fine time in there (bit too cold for me) although we did have a couple of sessions in the infrared sauna - a dry heat, much nicer than a steam sauna.
We discovered a new board game (new to us anyway) - Stratego. Again the weather was a bit changable here, sunny one minute and then without seeing a rain cloud in sight, it tips down. An Australian I met said he's been in NZ 10 days and it hadn't stopped raining. I think we'd been lucky with our sunny weekend in Papamoa.
We picked a fine, sunny day to take our walk along the beach though and we walked up the start of the Orokawa and Homunga tracks. It was a good walk through bush and there were steep drops and cliffs along the way. We got about half way up before we ran into a quagmire of orange mud, the recent rains had caused part of the slope to collapse. We decided to head back down.
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