Coromandel Hot Water Beach

Our excursion out to Coromandel for Hot Water Beach was a sleepy one. We hit some rain and road works that has us diverting all over the place which also didn't help the already 2 and a half hour drive there.

When we arrived just after 1 in the morning, we parked and changed into our bathing suits. We walked on the cold sand further into the beach in search of bubbling hot water to dig a hole and make our personal pool. With my bare feet, I could feel some sand get warmer in parts, but a swell would roll in and wash over the sand making it cooler and therefore harder to find the hot pockets to dig.

After wandering around, we ran into some other people who also found a warm spot and they started to dig. We wanted to find a different hot spot, but it was just impossible with the waves washing so high up the shore, even though it was low tide. The group of people gave up on their digging, so we went over to check out the spot. The sand was hot and you could see the water bubbling up out of the sand. It was very hot, which was so strange on the beach like that with cold sand and water everywhere else. Unfortunately, with the low tide being so high for some reason, we weren't able to dig the hole to make our pool and had to settle for digging our feet in.

The tide and swells started to get above our knees at the back of the beach, so we too gave up on our little foot bath and went back to the car. It was another 2 and half hours back to Auckland which wasn't fun at 2:30. We got back safely, but very tired. We had quick showers after our mineral pools and beach excursions and then went straight to bed.Read more