HAHEI !

Hahei,(pronounced HA- HAY), was our final camping destination this holiday, it is a small settlement near Cathedral Cove (the one in the Chronicles of Narnia film).

It is a popular holiday destination, with a soft, white, sandy beach and quite sheltered, but the sea shelves steeply and can produce some huge waves!. Good for boogie boarding..I still remember being tipped out of the kayak at 100 miles an hour last time!



On the southern end of the beach is Te Pare Point, which was once the site of a māori pā. Greg and the girls climbed up it one sticky afternoon, and I opted for preparing the dinner and reading my book..the latest Stephen King 'Duma Key' - interesting, but not his best.



Another feature of this beach is Mahurangi Island, where Greg went fishing and caught several snapper, but they were too small and he had to put them back. The island lies on the edge of the Te Whanganui-A-Hei marine reserve, so you have to be careful where you fish or you can get arrested! I'm sure I wouldn't be able to tell where the line in the water began.



The town centre consists of a few overpriced cafés and a tacky gift shop, as well as a general store with icy ice-creams , and a salty fish and chip (fush an' chups) store. We had ice-creams every day, much to the girls' delight, but it was SO hot.
So, camping over with for this summer, back to work and hard graft, SIGH!