Cruising Coromandel Peninsula and Bay of Plenty

From Auckland, it took a day of cruising to get to our next stop, Tauranga.  On the way we saw some nice sights, including:

Needle Rock.  Creatively named.  If it were on the American coastline we would have named it Arrowhead Rock, because we're more creative.

Elephant Rock.  This actually took a while to see.  As the ship was going by it didn't look like an elephant until this point.  Then 15 seconds later, no more elephant.  Pretty cool.

The very living White Island volcano.  It is New Zealand's only live marine volcano, spewing massive amounts of sulfer into the air, detectable by our shipbound noses depending on the wind.