26 January 2018 04:05 AM

11° - 17°

Mercury Bay 5 Day Forecast

Thursday

12° - 19°

Showers

Friday

14° - 19°

Partly sunny w/ showers

Saturday

14° - 18°

Showers

Sunday

11° - 18°

Intermittent clouds

Monday

11° - 17°

Partly sunny w/ showers

Tuesday

11° - 18°

Mostly cloudy w/ showers

Wednesday

10° - 13°

Cloudy
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COOKS BEACH

Cooks Beach, Coromandel Peninsula at its best

Cooks Beach is one of a string of delightful sandy beaches on the Coromandel Peninsula. It has a 3km, gently curving white-sand beach - ideal for swimming, walking and sunbathing. Cooks Beach is a popular holiday destination and a pleasant seaside settlement of holiday homes has been established over the years.

There is a ferry service available from Whitianga to the Ferry Landing Wharf, the oldest stone wharf in Australasia - built in 1837 by unskilled labour using large stone blocks. From here you can walk or catch a shuttle to Front Beach, Flaxmill Bay, Shakespeare Cliff, Lonely Bay and Cooks Beach.

Front Beach and Flaxmill Bay are sheltered, north-facing beaches that are ideal for swimming and rock pool explorations. Flaxmill Bay is at the base of Shakespeare Cliff. In 1769, the famous explorer Captain Cook beached his ship the Endeavour here to carry out maintenance on the hull.

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