Afternoon walk at Muriwai beach, Auckland. Su Leslie 2019 (click to enlarge image).
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Afternoon walk at Muriwai beach, Auckland. Su Leslie 2019 (click to enlarge image).
Zimmerbitch 
Simply breathtaking 💕
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It is a lovely beach, but even I thought it was looking nicer than usual.
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Love it !!!!❤️❤️💓💓
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amazingly beautiful
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😀
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And not a soul in sight…
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We had to walk quite a way up the beach to get solitude. At the carpark end, there was a bus load of tourist taking selfies and destroying the rock pools. Grrrrrrr!!!
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Oh, no. All is not what it appears to be then.
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No. But I really wanted to concentrate on the positives.
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I try and avoid people in my photos too. And empty beaches are much nicer.
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Totally!! So many visitors are destroying the beaches. Up north, local Maori have closed access to some tidal pools which are effectively dead because of all the people visiting them. It’s hoped that this will give the ecosystem a chance to recover.
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What are they doing in the pools? I recall visiting a beach south of Raglan where there were some magnificent rock pools and I was amazed to see starfish and sea anemone and beautifully coloured mussels, but I only ever take photos.
https://smallbluegreenwords.wordpress.com/2014/12/13/new-zealand-wrap-up-2/
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Pretty much everything disgusting that you could think of. They became a tourist destination, but there are no facilities. https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/travel-troubles/110613389/matapouri-mermaid-pools-closes-indefinitely-due-tourists-rubbish
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That doesn’t sound very nice at all 😦
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It’s becoming more and more a problem. The local tribe’s decision to close the area is widely applauded here. We’re starting to ask if other places can’t be similarly protected.
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Perhaps they need to install public toilets and rubbish bins. I understand that a lot of the problems arise from wild camping? I guess that means Kiwis as well as foreign tourists.
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Ultimately, if the pools re-open, I guess some facilities will have to be provided, but until the eco-system recovers it’s better to close them. Access is across private land, which also begs the question of who has to pay for the facilities and to maintain the access. Tourism — domestic and international does so much damage that we are only beginning to realise.
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Which is why it is nice here that the National Trust own so much of the coastline – the public get access and often toilets are provided. All for the cost of a parking ticket, though as members we get parking free too in most places. Not all.
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The department of conservation similarly controls a lot of our land and coast and does a great job providing facilities. I think the problem has come largely because of exponential growth in tourism — there are simply too many people in some places for all the infrastructure (roads, car parks, sanitation, etc) to cope with.
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Sadly that sounds all too familiar to me. I spend the summer not on the beach, but in my own garden!
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Our trip to Muriwai was rare. Normally we’d never go to the beach in day-time during summer. Even on a weekday.
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I miss the beach.
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🙁
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Ah the taste of summer at the beach! Great shot, Su!
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Thanks Peter.
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I love the feel of space and peace in this shot, Su. Your title has me wondering whether you’ll have more than one weekend this weekend. If so, I’d like to know how that’s done because I’d love to do the same (although maybe not this weekend, as I work both days.) 🙂
janet
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Hehe … or it’s a typo. Although, I could walk on the beach every Friday I guess?
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Drat! Typo was my first thought, but then I thought you were going onto some esoteric plane where I couldn’t follow. 🙂
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If only … sigh
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That beach goes on forever.
Leslie
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It is 50km long!!
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Oh my, it really does go on for a long way…
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Beautiful ❤
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THIS IS WEEKEND HEAVEN 🙂
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😀
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Beautiful sky!
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