Day 47 Hahei

Hahei is right on the beach...  350 permanent residents but explodes to over 7000 during the summer. We are here at a great time.. not tons of people but still enough that most services are open. After a look around town and a couple of flat whites at the Hahei Beach Cafe we head out on a hike to Cathedral Cove. We stop to visit Gemstone Bay and Stingray Bay , where we meet a couple from Halifax. We continue on to Cathedral Cove and we are rewarded by beauty. A sheltered cove where the rocks have been formed into odd shaped pillars and even a huge tunnel through the rocks that you can walk through to the other side of the cove. The water looks so inviting that we go in for a swim .. a little cool at first but we quickly adjust. Probably my first swim in the Pacific and if not definitely my first swim in the Pacific in April. We go out to the Church Restaurant , for our last New Zealand suppertime meal. Tomorrow we will have two suppertime meals, one on the plane and the other in Vancouver after we land. Neat !!