Musings of an Idiot

Coromandel

Just back from the location recee to Coromandel Town. It was a fantastic 2 days and I am in love with the location. It is a quite, beautiful and laid back town. Auckland seems like a mad place right now and India will be chaotic after this experience.


A view of Coromandel Town

I saw Merdith there..i mean there was a lady whom we saw at the cafe who fit the profile of Merdith to the last possible detail and it was a nice but bizarre experience. Today was definitely the most fun we had. Lance and me got up at 6.00 in the morning to try and get some snaps of the sunrise across the mountains but when we reached the scenic spot from where you could see the sunrise all we found were clouds.


Trying to find the sun..Lance@ a scenic spot


Me at the beautiful coromandel wharf

So we came back, took some more photos around the town and then decided that we would visit a couple of spots which are popular around there - we had the spots to ourselves. The first was a Waiau Falls located right next to a road and it was beautiful. Lance decided that he will take a quick swim but seeing his reaction you could tell that the water was freezing but still it was a surreal setting.


Lance under the waterfall

After the waterfall, we decided that we would climb Castle Rock - which is an old volcano core that rises above the bush, on the "backbone" of the coromandel peninsula. And it was heaps of fun and I am so glad that we did it. The final climb was really steep but exciting. The photographs don't do the place justice because it literally overshadows everything and everything looks so tiny that the landscape looks flat and looses its perspective.


'I believe I can fly' - Lance at top of Castle Rock


'I believe I can sit' - Me at top of Castle Rock

After the climb we explored the area a little bit more before coming back to Auckland. Overall it was a fun trip which I will treasure a lot and hopefully we will film in Coromandel if all things work out. I will put up the pics from the trip up at some point soon (or not so soon).

I will leave things like that for now and will take leave.
Adios,
Amit

posted by Amit @ 10:38 PM