By Helen van BerkelIt's a long way to Tapora - it's a long way, I know (now). The area is one of those islands that is only an island when the tide comes in. When the tide is out you can easily walk across the sandflat to the island, at the end of Journeys End Rd, on a hot peninsula jutting into the Kaipara. We parked beside the road atthe Okahukura reserve sign to avoid getting stuck like the, frankly, morons, we met that day. Those soaring rippled slopes contrasted photogenically with the blue sky above and the white-capped inner Kaipara Harbour ahead.

Source: New Zealand Herald March 12, 2017 01:52 UTC