Waipu Beach — Attraction in North Island

I stopped ✋️ off at Waipu. It is the perfect place to relax and enjoy the Pacific paradise of Bream Bay 🌊

Waipu is a friendly town with an intriguing history, strong Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 heritage, and spectacular natural surroundings 😲

Waipu Cove is a long, sandy beach ⛱️with safe swimming 🩱surfing and fishing 🎣 There are rock pools to explore, and in secluded surrounding. The settlement is also known for horseriding 🐎 and walking trails around Waipu, Uretiti, and Ruakaka.

You can embark on a 1.5-hour walk around the Waipu Caves, where you will find stalactites, stalagmites, and glow worms 🪱 ✨️ Or explore the Waipu Coastal Walkway with stunning rock formations similar to the Pancake Rocks.

Nearby are the beautiful Piroa Falls 💦 and Marsden Cove marina where you can take day trips by boat ⛵️ that include fishing, diving, and sightseeing.

I was just passing through 🚗 but it seems like a great place to stop off for a short break...

4-6 years and more years ago it was lovely beach. However, this beach has become worse and worse every year. Nowadays, this is not the place where you, who has seen this beach before, would like to swim or spend holidays. First of all when you arrive to beach you will feel the stink of feces from a stream flowing into the ocean. It can be result of fast growing building as well as touliet waste products of people from the beach toilet because the qantity of people coming to beach increased tremendously. As a consequence of this the biological environment of the ocean adjacent to the beach has changed and as a result, we can observe multiple blooms of ocean in each month of summer, which was not the case before. The beach has became dirty due to people. It is sadly to see how beautiful place changed into scrap-heap.

Unfortunately, there are no place 100 km around Auckland where you can swim in clear...

Fantastic beach. Loved the river that wrapped around the one side with the rocks to climb on. Perfect family beach with picnic tables and a playground. Plenty of places to relax or explore. Would definitely come back and bring some friends. There is an electric stove top/grill to cook your food on, but no rubbish bins onsite, so keep...