Deja Vu

I'm back in the Coromandel Peninsula and it looks exactly the same as the last time I was here 10 months ago, except this time I'm with my parents. It's been almost a year since seeing my Mum and Dad. I met my parents, my Aunt Natalie and Uncle Jay at the Auckland airport. They all looked wonderful, despite being a little haggard and jet lagged! We took off in our Nissan Pathfinder toward Coromandel Town, and stopped at a little cafe in Thames for lunch before continuing on the ridiculously windy road up the Coromandel Coast.

I have to admit that since I've been here almost a year, I don't have to take quite so many pictures as I did when I first arrived. I forgot what New Zealand looks like through the eyes of newcomers. The first couple of hours I patiently stopped the car every time a picturesque scene appeared, which is pretty much around every corner. But as the sun started to set and we still hadn't reached our destination I had to limit the random stops for pictures! After that it was 5 stops per day-no exceptions. With 5 people and 6 cameras in operation someone had to put their foot down!