The three Thermal aspects plus Cathedral Cove are attractive all year round.
We need to shout out this story to bring untold numbers of tourists to enjoy the essence of who we are and what we offer.
Signage must placard the message of uniqueness. It will take risk and money to do this, but the whole village will benefit and so will the rest of the Coromandel Peninsula.
Know our history
Once upon a time, over 80 years ago, patients at Whitianga Hospital would go to Mother Brown’s Creek (Taputaputea Stream) to bathe in the warm water that bubbled up from out of the sand. Thermal is not new to this region. It has always been here, before any human occupation.
The pioneer doctor who arrived on horseback for his clinic would prescribe immersion in the hot water as his desired treatment for patients.
Locals would also come and bathe.
It was a thermal spring – warm healing water. Over the years the spring was lost with shifting banks and moving coastlines.
But in 1989, after years of drilling and false starts, it was rediscovered – that was the beginning of The Lost Spring. Then it was lost again and found again in 2002. Now, it is there for the world to come and enjoy.
It would help every town on the Coromandel Peninsula to find what sets your town apart. The Coromandel Informer is here to assist.
