Cockles, godwits and wild roses

Kennedy speaks to us from Kuaotunu, just north of Whitianga. On his mind, the pleasures of the Seabird Coast.

Kawakawa Bay is popular with gatherers of kai moana keen for a feed of cockles

Cockles from Kawakawa Bay

Flax is flowering along the Seabird Coast of the Firth of Thames

Oystercatchers on a shellbank at Kawakawa Bay

Patterned sandstone at the start of a walk to Tawhitokino Beach

Mangroves and shellbanks near Kaiaua, on the Seabird Coast

View along the Seabird Coast

Pine forest on the road south from Kawakawa Bay

Wild roses abound on the roadsides at this time of year

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