As many of you know, we're currently spending our New Years on the Coromandel Peninsula. Specifically, we're in Pauanui (see map) staying with Rachel Alan and their friends S and F.
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We arrived late on the 28th after getting ... misdirected. We knew where we were, we just weren't quite where we wanted to be. New Zealand lacks signage in some places though in this particular place I'm pretty sure it was a case of being distracted by the incredible scenery. We ended up going around the west side of Lake Taupo and found a small lookout that gave the incredible views you can see on the gallery. If you look at the map, you'll see the slight detour we ended up taking: you can see on the west side of the island the rather square path we took around the Lake. That was a mistake :)
As always, there's a gallery of our photos. Here's most of my favorites. Click through to the gallery for bigger versions of the pictures!
Here's Bee all packed up and ready to go.
Mount Ruapehu seen from where the grass is still green. the middle of the North Island is actually as close to a desert as New Zealand comes, it's incredibly desolate. There's about a 75km stretch with absolutely no civilization, no real water, barely any plants and Mount Ruapehu watching over it.
Mount Ruapehu seen from the previously mentioned Desert Road.
Lake Taupo is one of New Zealand's favorite fresh water vacation destinations. It's a huge (by NZ standards) lake which is actually in a giant volcano crater. It's known to be rather cold because of it's depth but otherwise stunning.
Random photo we took from the Lookout that eventually got us lost. It was worth the view.
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