Pakawau

Travellers note - if your wanderings are taking you north from Collingwood across the Aorere River, the last store selling general goods is at Pakawau, some fifteen minutes on. The little settlement is strung along the road, with the old school, now a restaurant, on the left and nearly everything else on the right. The motor camp abuts the superb beach as do most of the houses while a few hundred metres further on, a road junction poses the question - left to Westhaven, veer right to Puponga? Not far from the junction is a processing plant handling a range of seafood including cockles harvested from the beach opposite. At low tide the sea retreats to a surprising distance, while at high water the tide floods into the tiny inlet in a noisy rush, turning the occasional white heron into a fisherman.

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