Monday, December 11, 2006

Day 57. Orewa. Smokin'...

The mini spell of decent weather came to a halt today so after a quick circuit of the rest of the Coromandel we decided to drive up to the other side of Auckland on our final push North.

Stopped off in Coromandel Town where we found this little shop that smokes all kinds of weird stuff on site. It's great. Their premise being, if it lives in the ocean and fits in their smoker, they'll sell it. Smoked Trevalley for me, while Wend tried Smoked Orange Roughy, both of which we're yet to see in any London chippy.

Smokin'

After 5 thousand kilometres we came across something totally unexpected this afternoon. A motorway. In fact, the whole driving through Auckland thing was a complete shock to the system - at one point we were even held up in traffic; unheard of in the past 6 weeks.

Dramatic thunderstorm just as we arrived at the campsite in Orewa, with a stonking rainbow to end the day.

Rainbow at Orewa

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