Not a wonderful nights sleep but then again when is it for me lately? Mum was up at 5.50 am for a shower but had to come back because it wasn't open. I was still trying to sleep. Went again at 6.05 and got into the shower then realised she'd left the 50c coin to operate it back in the cabin (still trying to sleep) so had to come back again and turn on the light to search for coin. Gave up trying to sleep and went for a shower instead. Left at 7.20 and drove in to town for breakfast, which we had at a greasy spoon in Coromandel. It stank of old fat but the breakfast was OK; I had poached egg on toast with HP brown sauce (mmm), Mother had toast and honey and hot chocolate. I settled for tea. Then we wandered off down the road, did a lot of ooh and ahhing at Coromandel Bay and took some photos of the islands and the black swans. We turned off to visit Waiau Falls. The road- State Highway 309, was signposted liked a proper road and looked OK, but after a couple of hundred yards there was a big warning sign sign like the one we had seen yesterday at Colville before the road ran out. However this morning the surface was dry and we decided to chance it. It was 2.7km to the water works and looked to be as far again to the waterfall. We arrived eventually and were really disappointed - you couldn't see the falls from the view point.
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