This is the most beautiful beach in the Auckland area. I’m lucky enough to come from quite near it, so I grew up going to it a lot. Yesterday, my boyfriend and I made a special trip up to visit it, and the swimming was spectacular. Huge waves, warm water, and fish swimming around our feet. It’s a marine and land reserve, and they’re currently repopulating it with all manner of endangered New Zealand species (they’ve just recently moved in kiwis, and they’re in the process of bring in tuatara*).
Tawharanui is also home to a working farm and a large expanse of wetlands that shelter lots of New Zealand’s most endangered birds. The road in there is nothing short of horrific, and that’s just the way us locals like it – keeps most of the yuppies out (in many ways, I am a yuppy. I do not, however, drive like one).
*Tuatara are a type of reptile that is thought to be the last surviving dinosaur breed. You see them every now and then at the zoo but they’re fairly rare, perhaps due to the fact that they move so slowly you can’t see it happening. They are, however, a bit cute. Here’s their wikipedia page.
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Is that the awesome beach we went to?
it is indeed!