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Sweeping all before – Champion Piha Boaties
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 ]
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Piha wins at Big Wave Classic
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 ]
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Piha boys going to the worlds – Western Leader
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 ]
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Know your Piha 1 – Te Pona Whetu
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 ]
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Possum blitz in parkland at Piha-Anawhata-Bethells
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 ]
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Handrail fix canned
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 ]
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Removal of one limb from Beach Valley Road pohutukawa
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 ]
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Piha boat crew Australasian Champions
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 ]
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Elliot triumphs again
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 ]
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The glory of the West – sunset 10 February 2012
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/#