Charcoal Bay Beach — Attraction in Kaipātiki

The entrance is NOT a driveway despite looking like it with zero signage! Great for it's secluded nature and rocks walk at low tide, but the beach seems to be more consistently wet clay than something you'd want to lay a towel down on. The walk down is paved and semi steep meaning you've got a brief but heavy walk back up. Overall, great sunset spot for more of a quick visit than where to hang out for hours for us at least. Live oysters also lined the clay and rocks which was a...

Whole family went there 5 days ago just to explore and wow absolutely beautiful! Worth the 3 min bush track down with sand, nice calm clear water. Perfect for families and kids with only a handful of people there. We got there midday when the tide was in. Definitely new...

Kayaked over to here with my eleven year old and we lived it. The water was really warm and real sand...