Photo: RNZ / Peter de Graaf
Record temperatures in Kerikeri have highlighted a long-standing bugbear in the Northland town - declining access to once-popular swimming spots.
According to MetService, last Saturday's maximum of 32.3C set a new January record for the town.
That was broken just 24 hours later by Sunday's high of 32.7C.
Sweltering temperatures send Northlanders, like 17-year Te Moemoea Milne, flocking to streams and waterholes.
"It's been ridiculously hot. Just boiling," he said.
When RNZ caught up with him he was cooling off by doing bombs off Charlie's Rock, a scenic waterfall on Kerikeri's Waipapa River.
"If I have money, I just ask the boys to come and pick me up and go somewhere.
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