Monday March 16th – Hahei / Lunch

A quieter day today, we just went for a drive down the coast to Hahei, which is a small town South of Whitianga. It's a small holiday home beach town, with a very small shopping centre, a cafe and a whole range of kiwi beach batches. It had a really nice feel to it, as most of the houses are still pretty understated. We did a walk along the beach and then went up to the lookout, which is also the start off point for the walk to Cathedral Cove. We took some photos from the look out, but didn't do the walk to the Cove because that would have got in the way of the start of lunch and we'd found a good restaurant in Whitianga when we were walking to get a muffin for breakfast, so were keen to head back there for a long and relaxing lunch, which we managed to achieve over a 3 hour period sitting outside on the restaurant deck beside the marina, with predominantly sunny conditions – all very nice and relaxing.