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 ]

This distinctive hill at North Piha, visible opposite the North Piha Campers Club at the back of the Marawhara Walk,  has a name.   It is Te Pona Whetu, or the  [ Read More ]

The annual Waitakere Ranges possum monitoring programme was completed in January, with very pleasing results. Most of the Waitakere Ranges is still maintaining possum indices below the treatment threshold of  [ Read More ]

When Auckland Transport built the wooden fences alongside the footpaths in the upper part of Seaview/Piha Road near the corner of Pendrell Road, the contractor got it wrong and built  [ Read More ]

Parks are planning on trimming one limb from a Pohutukawa outside 28-30 Beach Valley Road.  This limb is being removed due to a number of reported incidents where vehicles have  [ Read More ]

  The Piha Senior A crew has just achieved a historic double – the Piha crew was 1st in the Autex Australian Surf Rowers League Open Men’s Champs and then  [ Read More ]

Piha’s Elliot Paerata-Reid was first in the under-16 boys over the weekend, at the second round of the Billabong Grom at Whangamata. Elliot achieved 12.3 points, ahead of Dune Kennings  [ Read More ]

 Pete Chapman sent another photo of weekend sunsets from another angle   More western sunsets over the weekend http://nz.news.yahoo.com/news-gallery/a/-/article/12870309/image/1/sunset-stuns-aucklanders/#

Friday 10 February 2012 Earlier in the summer, various local groups met with Parks West and the Local Board to discuss whether any action should be taken on the joined  [ Read More ]