In recent weeks, ducks at the Claude Abel Reserve in Garden Road (Lily Pond) have been showing signs of Avian Botulism. Now it is confirmed that there are water quality [ Read More ]
A small, select but cheery group of Piha people joined the protests today (10 March) against the redundancies of nearly 300 ports workers. Sandra Coney, Monique Olivier, Sheena von Bassewitz [ Read More ]
Sitka’s Mischa Davis has this past weekend been crowned the overall Women’s Champion at the final round of the Hyundai New Zealand Longboard Tour for 2012 at Port Waikato. With [ Read More ]
Latest YouTubes from Elliot Paerata-Reid, surfer boy extraordinaire. Love that filming of Lion Rock down the tube, and that snapper. Did he catch it off his board? http://vimeo.com/37711530 And Here’s [ Read More ]
I’ve been doing a lot of work lately on some of the history of Piha. There is still much to learn and I’d like to hear from anyone who can [ Read More ]
Peak winds of up to 130 km/hr hit the south and west of Auckland around 8 am on 3 March. Civil Defence and Emergency reports that power was cut in [ Read More ]
The Auckland Council’s Long Term Plan is out for consultation until 23 March. See it here http://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/EN/AboutCouncil/PlansPoliciesPublications/Long_term_plan/Pages/Home.aspx?utm_source=homepage%2Bpromo%2Btile&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=Long_Term_Plan Of big interest to Piha locals is how the new rates system will [ Read More ]
It doesn’t get better than this. Look at that tightly disciplined technique of the Piha Pirates crew (closest to camera), Horse on the sweep, with the Australian Tannun crew behind (in [ Read More ]
Despite challenging wind and wave conditions, Piha took out the Open Men’s and also Under-23 Men’s at Saturday’s Big Wave Classic, so good results by both Horse’s crews. Ladies was cancelled. [ Read More ]
Two Piha surfers will represent New Zealand at the ISA world junior surfing championships in Panama this April. Tane Wallis and Elliot Paerata-Reid were selected alongside 10 other surfers from [ Read More ]