Sea Adventures

My cousin and I decided that we would do something more adventures than hangout on the beach so we climbed up Pah Hill at Hahei beach on the Coromandel Peninsula (gorgeous beach by the way). Then we decided to lower ourselves down onto the rocks below. It was so steep that it was almost vertical. Without a rope I doubt we would have gotten back up, because you can always go down, by falling face first haha
Once at the bottom we had to precariously climb the rocks. Luckily for us there were many nooks and cranys that we could stick our fingers into and put our feet on. What an exhilarating feeling to climb rock faces with nothing under you but the ferocious water! I doubt we were in any real danger since we did take it slow and there was no wind about.
My cousin managed to frame me quite well in this picture. I'm just coming up onto the ledge the looks down onto the swell of the ocean and the waves upon the rocks. It caused this awesome whirlpool effect to. The ocean was so blue but clear at the same time and we saw heaps of fish. We even saw 1m long kingfish and decided to come back to the same spot tomorrow to try our luck with the fishing rods. The climb down and up with the rods strapped to our backs was no easy feat.
The weather was fantastic and so warm. We did contemplate leaping off the rocks into the water but after seeing a stingray and something much larger than a fish we changed our minds. Also, with the tide coming in we did not want to get trapped on the rocks just because we wanted to have a swim.

The water was so amazing though. It had a strange attraction to it but then the stingray and the larger shadow had the same sense of awe but the opposite since it just made us want to stay dry. I did catch a fish here on the 2nd day but it was a 10cm snapper and so I decided to throw it back. Ill come back for it in 2 years time =)