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Raglan

// August 16th, 2010 // Travel

On our recent trip to New Zealand we visited Raglan one the west coast for the first time. NZ is so small, and on one day we brunch in Raglan on the west coast and the next we lunched at Mt Maunganui on the East coast. The trip to Raglan was fun, we brunched at Black Sands Cafe, and did a spot of shopping. Mum bought a cute oak coffee table and bought me a gorgeous 1960′s Crown Lynn Dorothy Thorpe Pine dinner set (look out for it in future food pix), and on the way home visited the stunning Bridal Veil Falls. West coast beaches in NZ have black sand, and are very rocky and rugged. Raglan has the best goofy-foot (left foot) break for surfers in NZ, and Manu Bay near Raglan was featured in the 1966 movie The Endless Summer.
West Coast outlook

Surf Beach Sign

Classic unrestored Kiwi Bach or Crib (Surf Shack)

Tara and my bro Doug

Black Stony Beach

Flowering Flax

Bridal Veil Falls