THAMES TO WHITIANGA
We were out late last night. But we are up early this morning.
We leave Thames after a big breakfast. We are winding our way up the Western Coast of the Coromandel. This road turned out to be the highlight of the trip. We are hugging the coast and the huge trees to our left arch over the highway creating long tunnels made of tree as we cycle under them.
We climb over a 200metre mountain and arrive at noon at the town of Coromandel where we eats a lot of food.
Then the real work begins. We head out to our final destination, Whitianga a beautiful beach and surfing town on the north east corner of the Peninsula. To get there however, requires a climb over a mountain almost 400meters high and then two smaller but stupidly steep hills.
We arrive - our longest day in the saddle so far. This town is wonderful. When the town has a "Surf Street" and long expanses of sandy beach, it can't be that bad.
STATS:
Distance: 101.2 km
Time: 5.47
Average: 17.5 kph
Max: 75.0 kph
Temp: 28-30C
Weather: Sunny
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