PHOTO: DOMINICO ZAPATA/STUFF The sea-wall is the only thing protecting Moanataiari, a suburb of Thames, from a rising sea.
There’s flash holiday homes on one side and big retirement homes on the other. Each side of the Coromandel Peninsula is threatened by the coming tide of climate change. National Correspondent Charlie Mitchell reports.
On a sunny and cloudless spring afternoon, John Leenan was surprised to find himself standing on a flooded street.
It looked like a wave had washed through the northern suburbs of Thames, on the Coromandel peninsula. Water was flowing up through the drains and pooling on the road, beneath parked cars and on grassy berms.
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