How to get there: Just 40 minutes’ drive from the CBD if you avoid peak hour traffic, Clevedon makes for an easy day trip or – to take full advantage of its attractions – longer stay.
Best known for: Its oysters and Sunday markets. Head to Clevedon Coast Oysters for fat, juicy, organic specimens of the former. Eat them at a picnic table on the front lawn (perhaps with a bottle of sav) or grab takeaways and tuck into them on one of the pretty – and often pretty deserted – beaches nearby. Complete with gazillion-dollar views of the Hauraki Gulf. Clevedon hosts two popular markets on Sundays – a farmers’ market at the A&P Showgrounds and the arty, crafty Village Market at the Community Hall. Get to the former early for the best selection of fresh fruit, veggies, meat, fish, buffalo milk cheese and homemade goods – much of it is gone by mid-morning.
Body of missing fisherman found on Te Kawau Bay five months after incident
21 Jan, 2021 10:59 PM
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John Planas was reported missing after failing to return from a fishing trip on a kayak off Duder Regional Park on August 30. Photo / Google
John Planas was reported missing after failing to return from a fishing trip on a kayak off Duder Regional Park on August 30. Photo / Google
NZ Herald
The body of a fisherman reported missing last year has been found washed up on a beach.
The 33-year-old man has been identified as John Planas - a Philippines national who lived in Auckland.
Press Release – New Zealand Police
Police have identified a body that was found washed up on the beach at Te Kawau Bay, Ponui Island at the weekend.
The body was found by a member of the public around 12:10pm on Saturday 16 January.
He has been identified as John Planas, who was reported missing in August last year.
The 33-year-old man, a Philippines national who lived in Auckland, did not return from kayak fishing off Duder Regional Park on 30 August 2020.
Mr Planas’ family in the Phillipines have been informed and his death has been referred to the Coroner.
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Stingrays dumped at Auckland bay in Hauraki Gulf, tails cut off in very cruel act
19 Dec, 2020 04:08 AM
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Marks on the rays indicated they were likely caught in nets. Photo / Shane Kelly
Social issues reporter, NZ Heraldmichael.neilson@nzherald.co.nz
Twenty rays potentially caught by fishers have been dumped at an Auckland bay, some with their tails chopped off, in what a marine scientist has called a very cruel act.
The Ministry for Primary Industries is investigating, and say the deaths could also have been caused by orca.
University of Auckland marine scientist Dr Shane Kelly came across the graveyard of stingrays and eagle rays on Saturday morning on a beach just south of Whakakaiwhara Point at Duder Regional Park, east of Auckland city.
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