Wet and wild weather for the first holiday weekend out of lockdown flooded roads and caused slips in the Coromandel.
It meant some took hours-long detours and others stayed on for a night or two extra rather than brave the weather.
Five hundred millimetres of rain fell in the Pinnacles over 48 hours, and 230 mils in Coromandel towns.
RNZ reporter Jordan Bond reports.
