Dads birthday today and so we celebrated all day!! He really was pleased with all your birthday messages 🤗💕💕

First stop breakfast under a palm tree in the sunshine.

Lunch cheese cake

Tea starter was lamb sausages then sirloin steak green beans and chunky chips for main

I drove home from restaurant my first time with an automatic could get used to it!

Now drinking wine and watching the sunset just as dawn is breaking in Europe….

 

The west side of Coromandel is a road right next to the sea. The tide was high and the sea right by the road in places. Where there was a stretch of sand there were very many pied oyster catchers gathered together waiting for the tide to turn. They looked so comical.

We saw cormorants and herons and quite a few other kinds of sea birds. It was so great to see them in a natural environment and so close to us too.

We kept stopping all along the way to take photos and enjoy the views and beaches.

Eventually we reached Coromandel Town. Then the road climbs steeply into the forested mountain passes. We went over to the other side

Again we stopped at beaches until we reached Whitianga. Lovely sandy deserted beaches!

It was 4.30pm and we had now reached the roads on the east side that we had explored yesterday. We arrived back in Thames after crossing mountains again.

Grandad had a really lovely birthday day today and so did I xxx

Hope you like my photos.