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    Coromandel’s COASTING CONNECTION

    Jan 21, 2021 2 minutes
    By Dave Mitchell

    One of the most beautiful camping spots in the world can be found at Stony Bay at the northern point of the Coromandel Peninsula. Ancient, twisted and drooping pohutukawa tower over a sheltered bay that catches the sunrise around its bush-covered headland and rocky outcrops.

    Sheep are still farmed over what remains of the old Stony Bay Farm but native bush is slowly reclaiming the cleared

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