From Tairua we drove a few miles up the road to the famous Hot Water Beach, where natural hot springs rise just below the surface. You don’t have to dig very deep before the hole is filled with water and the trick to making your own spa pool is to dig it close enough to the ocean for the tide to bring in cool seawater. Too close and the “bath” will be cold and too far away and it will be too hot to sit in. Digging a large enough hole in the wet sand is quite hard work!
We’d gone at the time we were told the tide would be ideal (which might explain why there were so many other people there) but didn’t manage to find our own hot spot.
It was interesting to see though.
Barnaby
It was interesting to see though.
Barnaby
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