Taranaki Beaches
Beaches of TaranakiTaranaki's beaches are the best in New Zealand?
Taranaki beaches didn't make the shortlist. At Fitzroy Strand, Haisley O'Leary had just discovered a few ripples and said the beaches were "primo". Betteridge said that the benefits of the beaches were not something he really thought about. Said he usually took his children 5 and 7 years old to the protected Ngamotu beach, but had recently begun taking them to Fitzroy beaches.
Although it has been removed from the top beaches ranking, the area is not alien to foreigners. The Pukekura Park, the "Mayfair" in New Zealand's Monopoly Board, and New Plymouth's "moderately vibrant" retail and restaurant scene were also mentioned, as were Womad, TSB Bank Festival of Lights and Puke Ariki.
Taranaki's coast is home to innumerable classical Surfbreaks.
Taranaki's coast is home to innumerable classical Surfbreaks. Breakstones like Stent Road, Kumara Patch, Fitzroy Beach and Arawhata Road have become legends over the years, attracting windsurfers from all over the underworld. Regardless of the waves or winds it is almost always somewhere on the highway.
It is a favourite seaside resort with a number of bathing, windsurfing and angling sites, as well as a high-capacity campsite and toilets. Directly outside Manaia, this beautiful sandy spot provides windsurfing, campsite, swimming in the protected rivers and seas. It is considered one of the best windsurf break southern of Opunake.
The Opunake Beaches are secure beaches that are well supervised in summers by volunteers. Free barbecue facilities, great barbecue areas, great playgrounds and splash pools with a campsite that offers a variety of accommodations less than 50 meters from the shore. Beaches are also only a few minutes away from the city center.
Some of the region's best breakwaters are the famous Kumara Patch, a fast-breaking left-hander peeling 150 metres along a cliff, and the just as famous Stent Road, which offers a right rift fracture into a stony cove. Stent Road's sign-post has long been a destination for gift hunting, so the street is now signposted with a large cliff instead of a traditional sign-post.