For some years Waitakere City Council has been working with local communities to improve the quality of their waterways by upgrading and finding new technologies for on-site wastewater systems. Piha  [ Read More ]

Update: Piha Surf Club not yet open for meals. Watch this space for update. For the view to die for, Piha surf club has no peer. Nothing beats a cold wine  [ Read More ]

Piha RSA Morepork Kitchen serves very good meals from Monday to Sunday (Wednesday to Sunday winter hours after Easter) and reasonably priced beer and wine can be obtained from the  [ Read More ]

Arts Coordinator Glenys Scott Hours Thurs – Sun 10 am – 4 pm Address 50 Seaview Road (by the fire station) Piha Contacts 8128 029 or westcoastgallery@xtra.co.nz Website www.westcoastgallery.co.nz A  [ Read More ]

Attached is an article about Kauri PTA published in Forest Health News (Scion publication). FHnews-208_August2010[1]Background to this article is that it is Ross Beever’s response to an article published in  [ Read More ]

Keddle House is a heritage bungalow located in the regional parkland  half way down the steep walk into Anawhata. It has two bedrooms, one with queen bed and the other  [ Read More ]

Surf Life Saving Northern Region is holding a surf sports event, including IRB races, on Saturday 13 November. This will occur at a designated area on the beach in front of  [ Read More ]

Aka/akakura or scarlet rata vine Metrosideros fulgens family Myrtaceae This flamboyant member of the pohutukawa family provides a wonderful show in late summer. A climber, it appears as flashes of  [ Read More ]

Hangehange Geniostoma ligustrifolium family Loganiaceae This unimpressive little shrub serves a very useful purpose in forest, especially sealing the margins of bush when adjoining clear areas and roadsides. It is  [ Read More ]

Kahakaha or tank or perching lily Collospermum hastatum family Liliaceae A common epiphyte throughout lowland forest in the North Island and in the north of the South Island, it is  [ Read More ]