The broad black sand beach south of Karekare running down to the entrance to the Manukau Harbour is the Whatipu Scientific Reserve, a large sand accretion that has built up [ Read More ]
The West Coast Plan Liaison Group is a group of community representatives supported by Waitakere City Council to implement and monitor the West Coast Plan. The group meets bi-monthly and [ Read More ]
This site is written by Sandra Coney, a member of the Pearce family, one of the first families to buy land when Piha was subdivided in the 1930s. The family [ Read More ]
Piha is New Zealand’s most famous surf beach. Situated on the west coast of the North Island, 40 kms from the city of Auckland, this black iron-sand beach has a [ Read More ]
Black sand, burns your feet in summer, dries to a crunchy biscuit crust, piles up in the crutch of your togs, gets everywhere. Surf! Sounds like a war going on [ Read More ]
Strong individualists, tough, get-on-and-do-it folk. Started everything at Piha, cut the tracks, made tennis courts, surf clubs, library, post office, built the baches out of car cases and waste timber, [ Read More ]
Once milled ferociously for its kauri, rimu and kahikatea. Now the scars are healed and the kauri rikkers poke their conical heads above puriri, mamaku and nikau. Houses nestle among [ Read More ]