Description
For 100 years and more, the Coromandel Peninsula – so close to Auckland City, so rich in history, peerless in the rugged beauty of its coastline – has been curiously neglected as Mecca for tourists and holidaymakers. Only in recent years have Auckland and the rest of New Zealand begun to recognise the Coromandel for the national scenic asset it is.
Eugene and Valerie Grayland, both of them adventurous motorists and experienced writers, recently made a leisurely pilgramage around the peninsula. They nosed their car into the remoter bays, explored bold headlands on foot, li9ngered to gossip with old residents and fellow-tourists, bathed in hot springs, fossicked among the ruins of ghost towns, pored over documents, newspapers and guidebooks of bygone generations, collected sub-tropical plants, petrified, wood, and semi-precious stones on which a growing Coromandel industry is based.
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