On Thursday we drove from Rotorua up to the Bay of Plenty, which is the Pacific Coast on the north end of the island. It was the surfer capital of New Zealand. It's the first night of the trip in which we didn't have a place to stay that night, but we found a nice motel with 8 rooms run by a husband and wife in Coromandel, up at the top of the Coramandel peninsula.