Auckland Airport 2 hr 36
Mercury Bay (34 min) Bread & Butter Gallery (17 min)
Art museum and art The Waterworks (36 min)
Quirky place with water-powered inventions, a playground & a swimming hole, plus an organic cafe. Lonely Bay (34 min) Te Whanganui-A-Hei (Cathedral Cove) Marine Reserve (34 min)
Beach, snorkeling, and kayaking Mercury Bay Museum (4 min)
Charming displays on the history of fishing & other regional industries, plus a gift shop. Whitianga Mountainbike Park (4 min) Shakespeare Cliff Lookout (34 min) Otama Beach and Reserve (25 min) Coromandel Peninsula (16 min)
Stunning beaches, dense forest & some of the last wild populations of the Kiwi bird. Whiti Farm Park (10 min)
Park and zoo Mercury Bay Art Escape, Coromandel Peninsula (14 min) Banana Boat water activities Whitianga (3 min) New Chums Beach (38 min)
Remote, picturesque 0.6-mi.-long beach in a bay accessed via rugged headland & forest. | 
