Ohiwa Harbour

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One of the main things we'll miss when we go home will be the beautiful Ohiwa Harbour. We look out across it from our house, high up a hill. We drive past bits of it wherever we go. we have kayaked on it, eaten oysters from it, fished in it, paddled in it, watched birds on it, and it generally feels like a part of our lives. It's not how I would imagin a harbour - high walls with boats tied up; it's a tidal inlet of the Pacific, with a narrow mouth that then opens out into several square miles of water. It is constantly changing with the tide, and it includes conservation areas such as a salt marsh or islands that are like nature reserves.

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Photos

Ohiwa Harbour
The patterns in the sand change as the tide comes in - view from a Pa (old Maori fortified hilltop).