Wainui beach
Wainui Beach is located in the northeastern region of North island, just north of Cape Tuaheni. Gisborne is about 8 km from Wainui Beach and is served by public thoroughfare. Quality of surfing in Wainui Beach attracts surfers from all over the world to the beach.
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Beach description
This part of New Zealand offers many opportunities for a great time: scenic surroundings are ideal for hiking, cycling and horse riding. The area is developed skydiving, windsurfing, diving, skydiving.
Wainui Beach is almost year-round occupied by local swimmers and tourists who have chosen the central sandy part for swimming, there are busy athletes and fishing enthusiasts on the northern and southern section. Wave in the adjacent area of the sea is quite unpredictable. Surface of the sea is smooth, then creates large and dangerous swells. Bottom is also full of cracks and holes. Poorly trained swimmers are better off sticking to the flagged part near the beach, which is closely monitored by professional beach inspectors.
Despite the fact that the beach is recognized as dangerous, visited not only by athletes, but also by ordinary beach lovers, families with children. During the school holidays, on weekends quite lively, weather of the north island contributes to a good tan and sea baths. You just need to remember the safety rules.
Wainui Beach is provided with such facilities:
- Equipped with parking lot.
- Public toilets.
- There is a Playground, areas for outdoor games on the territory.
- Along the beach line you can ride a horse accompanied by other pets. Extensive walking area is particularly impressive at sunrise, at low tide.
- Guests can enjoy the sun on the beach or go kayaking, windsurfing, fishing. There's even a surf club "tower".
- Kiosk sells simple food and drinks.
If you have a magnet with you, you will be able to demonstrate to children the presence of iron ore particles in the sand.
When is the best time to go?
The best time to travel to New Zealand is December-January, the local summer. Despite the warming, the temperature rarely exceeds 30 degrees, so relaxing on the beach here is very comfortable.
Video: Beach Wainui
Infrastructure
Great location near the beach at the hotel Ocean Beach Motor Lodge, 4*. From here to Gisborne about 10 min drive and to the sea on foot only 3 min. There is a general store, cafe opposite the hotel. Rooms are clean and spacious with comfortable beds and access to the tropical garden through the terrace where you can dine outdoors. For guests - autonomous suites or open-plan studios, equipped with kitchen. Hotel offers free Wi-Fi, barbecue area.
Almost nothing has been preserved here by traditions of Maori cuisine. Restaurants serve traditional European food or Indian with Japanese. Anglo-Saxon influences are ubiquitous. Almost everywhere offer meat and fish, sea and river, fried potatoes, steaks, roast beef. Oysters and thorny lobsters in abundance, delicious crustaceans. Dish, which is only here – hangi. This is what little remains of the Maori. So call any food, more often this meat or fish with root vegetables, vegetables, baked underground. Previously, all the ingredients were wrapped in leaves. Now the leaves are replaced with foil. Dish is cooked in an underground oven for several hours.
Outdoor rest is combined with visits to interesting shops, shops, which are many in the cities. It is customary to buy knitted from sheep wool products, cosmetics containing sea salts, algae, dirt. Jewelry is famous for the use of rare materials. For example, Paua clamshells are found only here. As a gift, buy products made of jadeite, jade.
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- When driving a car, you should not forget about the left-hand traffic. Roads between cities and towns excellent. There are enough buses, but the fare in them is quite high.
- To taste the famous local kiwi and feijoa you need to visit the beach in autumn, which comes in March. Hot summer comes in December along with wine festivals, when the world's best varieties of white wine are tasted.
Near Wainui Beach:
- Gisborne Botanical Gardens.
- Park complex in Hamilton.
- St. Peter’s Cathedral in Hamilton.
- One of the national arboretums Eastwood Hill, near Gisborne, the second Halfox, between lakes Karangata and Tiniroto-lakes.
- Art museum in the Waikato region.