Coromandel - Fletchers Bay DOC camp site
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Coromandel - Fletchers Bay DOC camp site - February 1999 We ended up staying at Fantail Bay for three days, the second was just a lazy day, reading the Goldmine book, getting the logs up to date, swimming on the stony beach, having a barbecue, watching the showers come and go and just having a holiday. The final day we went up to look at Port Jackson and Fletchers Bay. The road is awful and we rarely got above 20 kph and never out of second gear on the way back - 25 minutes to Jackson and another 20 minutes onto Fletcher Bay. Fletchers Bay is still the same as we remembered but was almost deserted because of the strong onshore wind - we were glad we had decided not to move. We stopped to try our luck fishing off the rocks and, despite losing a lot of tackle in foul ground, we caught a legal (over 27 cm) Snapper which gave us a great lunch with mashed Kumara and fresh lemon.



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