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Waitakere Ranges Heritage Area Programme

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This Programme was developed by the old Waitakere City Council in its dying days. Despite the fact that the Act has 3 sponsors – WCC, Auckland Regional Council and Rodney  [ Read More ]

North calls in at Piha and talks to Sandra

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Marcus Lush’s new programme North was passing through Piha on Sunday 27 February and who should show up on it, but yours truly. I got to tell two stories: The  [ Read More ]

Black Sand Diva at RSA

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Categories: Events, Uncategorized

Piha Whale Watch

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Spotted by a visitor to the bach this morning (19 February) about 9.00am (have to confess still in bed myself), a large pod of whales and dolphins in Piha bay  [ Read More ]

Photos of the week

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Just come to hand these great shots of the Day of Giants from photographer Mark Taylor of the Waikato Times, supplied by Piha SLSC. Click on photo to see whole image.  [ Read More ]

Categories: big boats, Uncategorized

Karekare Race Day coming

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Karekare Race Day 25th anniversary Race Day starts 11am, Saturday 30th April 2011 Come along and enjoy a great day of entertainment at one of Auckland’s famous beaches. The entertainment  [ Read More ]

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Big surf, big boats, big thrills – Day of the Giants

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The Porthtowan surf boat team from North Cornwall, representing Great Britain, nearly upset expectations in the Open Men’s Surf Boat final in the Day of Giants contest for big boats on Saturday  [ Read More ]

Calling all Westie artists

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Arataki Visitor Centre in Scenic Drive has a small but lovely exhibition space and visitor throughput each week numbers in the 1000s. The centre has put out a call to  [ Read More ]

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Karekare Beach Races

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Karekare Race Day 25th anniversary Race Day starts 11am, Saturday 30th April 2011 . Come along and enjoy a great day of entertainment at one of Auckland’s famous beaches. The  [ Read More ]

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Piha Pirates U23 Trans-Tasman Champions!

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Whilst the Piha Pirates were pleased with their achievement of being selected as the NZ U23 Development team surfboat crew they also knew they had a responsibility to their club  [ Read More ]