New Chums Beach

On the Coromandel Peninsula.  You can only get there by boat or on foot. We walked.  A magical spot.  Native forest including Pohutakawa trees (flowering at this time of year) right down to the golden sand beach.  We topped they day off with a trip to Hot Water Beach after dinner.  You take a spade and dig a hole in the sand and sit in the water heated by geothermal activity.  The water is too hot to sit in directly, you have to open your self-dug pool up to the sea water from time to time to cool it down.  Seriously.  You literally can't even put a toe in it otherwise.