Karikari Beaches

Next day we drove further north to the Karikari peninsula and beaches and occupied ourselves with a couple beach walks. Turns out the first of them, Maitai (or maybe Merita?) we'd done before, but no matter, they're still beautiful. 

This was once the great watchtower of Amon Sul; wait, no, it's
St. Paul's Rock, above Manganui; for the real fake great watchtower
of Amon Sul, look here

Sand, sea, lava, flora

Another pano of the big tree we saw in 2018

Seaweed in the lower branches

The tree

Boulders on the beach, just in this one spot

Pano looking right

Left

Now, a few miles up the peninsula, Karikari Beach

It's high summer, high tourist season

There can't be 10 people in sight, for miles, mostly a few fishing

Lots of interesting shells on the beach, especially
some good-sized scallop shells...St. James must
have popped over this way on his voyage from
Galilee to Galicia...