NZ Part 4 - A Short Rest
With our vacation going over Christmas we wanted a few days to slow down and be able to celebrate Christmas with at least a shred of our usual traditions. We ended up in the small town of Tairua. It's located on the Coromandel peninsula in the North with endless beaches, epic coastal views, and car-sick-inducing windy roads. Tairua was the perfect little town for our holiday break. It's the kind of town where everyone knows everyone and everyone is friendly. When purchasing some lights to make our rental a little more festive, the owner of the hardware store offered us some of her old decorations to help. Even when resting we had a couple spots we didn't want to miss in the surrounding area. Hot water beach is a beach where you can dig a hole and it fills up with hot water from an underground hot spring. Sounded cool but we were confused when we got there and nobody else was digging holes. Turns out we either failed in our research or just forgot because we planned this too...