Cruise a little further along the coast from the very pleasant town that is Whakatāne, and you’ll hit Ōhope Beach.

Hang ten, ride the green tunnel, it’s always tubing off the point at Raglan...

This is becoming a hugely popular walkway, so you’ll need to watch for and be nice to the other folk.

The sand is a colour you simply have never seen before. The water is so blue it doesn’t actually look real.

Travel can be, well, strange, really, which is half the point.

Welcome to New Zealand’s largest unmodified wetland, a natural home for waterbirds galore, who make more than a meal of...