Welcome to the Wainui Beach. This is the online doorway to the unique environment that is the beach and the community of Wainui and Okitu. Five kilometres from the city of Gisborne, on the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand, way down deep in the South Pacific Ocean, Wainui Beach faces the open sea with nothing between here to South America.

Wainui Beach Information and BeachLife Magazine Online

This is the online site for information about the beachfront communities of Wainui and Makorori beaches located 5km north of Gisborne on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island.

BeachLife Magazine is an online lifestyle publication celebrating the way of life at this special coastal location. This website features archived magazine articles and online editions of the magazine which can be viewed on your computer monitor. See Latest Issue

Wainui Beach website has up-to-date general information about Wainui and Makorori beaches. Check out this website for general information about Wainui Beach including accommodation options.

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Wainui Beach Photo Gallery

ALONG THE COAST ROAD: For a photographic visit to Wainui and the beaches of the north Gisborne coast take a trip along The Coast Road Photographs by Gray Clapham

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About BeachLife Magazine

BeachLife Magazine is the only publication focused on coastal Gisborne’s culture and lifestyle.

Our readers say: “You've really captured the essence of this community.” Created by local writer, photographer and designer Gray Clapham BeachLife reports from a local perspective on a range of issues and events that are of interest to residents of this beachside area.

With local sensitivity and insight in its reporting BeachLife is the magazine for people who love the beaches north of Gisborne. It’s produced four times a year, not only for those who live at the beach year-round, but also for seasonal visitors and coastal expatriots who want to stay in touch.

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Stories from earlier issues

A Surfing Way of Life
We live in a surfer’s mecca. The twin beaches of Makorori and Wainui are world famous for the consistency and quality of surf. In this article we look at the history of surfing at our beaches and philosophize on the effects the surfing way of life has on how we view ourselves. >> MORE

A Place By The Sea: A History of Wainui Beach
In pre-European times Maori lived in their verdant, south seas domain unconcerned about the need to own the land by individual title. Tribal territories were defended forcefully but the ownership of parcels of land by one person or family was not a concept the early Maori subscribed to. A state-of-affairs that would create a major challenge for the land-needy settlers who arrived on these shores in the wake of Captain Cook. >> MORE

The Day The Whales Died
Many people remember witnessing this catastrophic event on a stormy autumn day in 1970. 59 sperm whales swam into the shallows at the northern end of Wainui Beach and died in a seething, bleeding mass. It was a tragic event that has become part of the history of Wainui Beach. >> MORE

>> FULL LIST OF ARCHIVED FEATURES

Stories from Summer 2010 issue

The Joan Coates Story: Joan Coates has been a Joan Coates has been a well-known personality in Gisborne or over half a century, most of those years spent living here at Wainui Beach. well-known personality in Gisborne or over half a century, most of those years spent living here at Wainui Beach.

• Daren's fight against foreign fishers: Daren Coulston is so outraged at the current direction of the New Zealand fishing industry he has started a national campaign to bring about change.
>> www.nzfishing.net.nz

• Designer Lauren moonlights on the fashion runway

• New school library arrives on the crest of a wave

• Matty Clarke choice of home works out: It’s been five years since Wainui local Matt Nache Clarke and his friend Gene Paul started Gisborne’s PaulNache art gallery. >> www.paulnache.com

• Troy's art turns a buck at the bar: Troy Conole has no plans to leave Gisborne anytime soon. This 22-year-old Pare Street local is proud to be Wainui born and bred and has a collection of successfully selling art work that testifies to the passion he has for the local lifestyle.

• Kelly Ryan's Rave Wave: Catching up with surfing action and the competitive scene around our beaches during the winter and spring of 2009.

• GENERAL NEWS STORIES

View readable online edition of Issue #5

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VIEW BEACHLIFE MOVIES:

OUT FRONT: Summer 2010 surf clip featuring Kelly Ryan, Chris Ransley and Jack Keepa.
THE CRAYFISH SONG: Video of Noel Craft and Kate Smail guitar/baritone sax duo from Lloyd George Road.
A GIVEN DAY: Peter Stewart's Big Water Band and tour of the beaches.

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