This large pohutukawa grows out of the top of a large rock and has sent soots down into the soil beneath to sustain it. To Te Kawerau a Maki the rock  [ Read More ]

In the latest Piha Surf Cub news Kirsty Wannan has been named in the NZ team to compete at the International Challenge in January. This is a full NZ team  [ Read More ]

Late on Friday 10 December a large group lit a fire on the southern end of the beach. Burning anything that came to hand, the group drank alcohol and stood  [ Read More ]

A highly intrusive bright white concrete drain has appeared alongside the Milk Track and the track has been covered for its entire width with a hardened surface. This is just the  [ Read More ]

All that black plastic tubing and green tanks in the Domain are signs of the new sewerage system under construction. The system replaces the old (though really not so old, but  [ Read More ]

Piha’s world famous surf break didn’t make it into the New Zealand Coastal Policy Statement 2010 Surf Breaks of National Significance despite representations from a number of submitters including Protect  [ Read More ]

About 6 years ago, some of our phormium tenax (large flax) started to go yellow and over a period the mature plants died. At that time, Jack Craw, Biosecurity Manager  [ Read More ]

There’s nothing like that salt air and a bracing swim to make you think about your stomach. And at the end of a day doing very little, a night’s sleep  [ Read More ]

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Thought I’d share my weird gear for tackling the gorse on our bush project. Here I am on 4 December 2010 heading off in ridiculous heat to have a go  [ Read More ]