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EAST CAPE KILOMETRES FROM ŌPŌTIKI KILOMETRES FROM GISBORNE
On past the Marae you will find the Te Kaha Holiday Park Motels & Café, General
Store and Takeaways, overlooking the bay.
Te Kaha Holiday Park Motels & Café: Post Shop, Lotto, accommodation, café.
Ph 07-325 2894. (see advert below).
TE KAHA 5 acres of park like setting 300m to sandy beach
Boat launching facilities 500m LPG available
Motels, Cabins & Backpackers Caravan & Tent Sites
HOLID A Y P ARK
MOTELS & C AFE Cafe General Store Liquor - off-licence Postal Centre
Hosts: Hone & Helen - Ph/fax 07 325-2894
Email: staff@tekahaholidaypark.co.nz www.tekahaholidaypark.co.nz
Maraetai Bay also known as School House Bay, is a safe, sandy sheltered beach for
swimming or laz'n and there is a public toilet. The Resource Recovery Centre for refuse
disposal is on Copenhagen Road, which you can access from just past School House Bay.
On the left 3km from School House Bay is the Maungaroa Marae with a whale boat on
display. This is the historic “Greyhound” that in 1993 was returned to the coast from
Gisborne Museum. The ruins of its boat shed can be seen on the beach below the marae.
Further on, by the roadside between two lovely pohutukawa trees, is buried Princess
Te Rangi Pai and her husband John Howie. The grave is marked with a guardian angel
headstone, one of the wings of which was damaged during the Wahine storm of 1968
(the stone has since been repaired). The Howies lived for many years in their home
“Kopuakoeaea” at Maungaroa. Mrs Howie was a great celebrity and a famous New
Zealand singer who performed before royalty.
76km Kereu River Good fishing, picnicking and laz’n. 259km
82km Waikawa Point 253km
Good fishing, picnicking, fossicking on the rocks, diving and laz’n.
Aerial view of Whanarua Bay.
- Photo Courtesy of Pacific Coast Macadamias
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