In preparing for our road trip we knew we had to include the famous Hot Water Beach near the town of Waikato on the Coromandel Peninsula in New Zealand. We were not really prepared for the crazy amount of people that were gathered there, all busy with shovels digging holes to create small hot water pools for themselves. The hot spring which is just underneath the sand is seriously hot and I did get my feet slightly burned by the boiling sand. Funny experience though!
Let me start by introducing myself. I'm Frank from the Netherlands, currently sixty-eight years old and retired for over a decade already. This gives me plenty of time to spend on one of the most fascinating hobbies I have, photography. It combines really well with travelling, another.. Read more…