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A complete list of Auckland beaches
from Okahu to Mellons
including useful information.
A list and description of East Auckland beaches from Okahu Bay to Mellons Beach, starting from the south eastern side of the Auckland Harbour Bridge.
As you leave the CBD and travel east along Tamaki Drive the beaches you come to in order are:
Okahu Bay beach.
Okahu Bay beach has about 440 metres of sandy foreshore with a gentle slope under water.
A safe swimming beach with public toilets and flat public park land across the road including a children's play ground.
Best for swimming above half tide as it gets shallow at low tide.
Mission Bay.
Has about 440 metres of sandy foreshore with a car park at each end and grassed recreation space in between, with a water fountain in the middle and public toilets.
There are a good range of restaurants, takeaways, cafes and bars across the road from the beach.
There can be traffic congestion and parking problems at peak traffic times, especially sunny weekend afternoons.
Kohimarama beach.
Has about 770metres of sandy foreshore with a tree lined footpath between the beach and road. With private dwellings on the other side of the road.
St Heliers Bay beach.
Has about 700 metres of sandy foreshore with a tree lined footpath next to the road.
There is a public park at the western end with a range of shops and eateries at the eastern end.
Public toilets and a children's playground at the eastern end.
Ladies Bay beach.
Has about 100 metres of sandy foreshore, below steep cliffs with a pathway down from the road.
Ladies Bay and further east, secluded
Gentlemans Bay. -
Are often used by nudists who run the risk of being fined for indecent exposure.
It is a popular area with the male gay community when the sun is out.
There is a viewing platform on the cliff top to the east of Ladies Bay, beside the road, with an excellent panorama around the Haurak Gulf.
Traveling around the coast east becomes the Tamaki Estuary with shallow mud flats, not attractive for swimming, although there are some attractive coastal parks, with walks, including:
Roberta Reserve -
Opposite Glendowie Park, with about 280 metres of grassed foreshore parkland.
Image above shows Pied Shags nesting in a tree at Tahuna Torea Reserve.
Tahuna Torea Reserve -
(See map above)At the end of West Tamaki Road, is a sand spit protruding out into the estuary with a shallow pebbly foreshore. With mangroves on the northern side. There's a coastal foreshore walk of about 1.8 kilometres with various internal park walks,that feature ponds, mangroves and trees, with various bird life including Mallard Duck, Pukeko, and Shags nesting in a tree.
The western side of Tamaki Estuary becomes silty and shallow.
Moving over to the eastern side of Tamaki Estuary after the Half Moon Bay Marina where the Waiheke Island car ferry departs from is-
Half Moon Bay - Foreshore about 360 metres of sandy shoreline.Then there's a carpark with boat ramp and Bucklands Beach Yacht Club building.
Bucklands Beach -
Has three sections of beach the Parade. The first section is about 370 metres of sand, then a sea wall, then a promontory, with a car park and the Bucklands Beach Yaucht Club building. Then about 920 metres of sand.
Then the Parade turns into Bucklands Beach North where there is a further 380 metres of sandy beach.
So the whole Bucklands Beach foreshore extends for about 2.1 kilometres.
Beyond which there is an attractive headland called
Music Point -
With public parkland and a pleasant walks, that can be reached along Music Point Road that travels beside the Howick Golf Course.
Then about 4 kilometres around a rocky foreshore, some of which is only walkable near low tide, is imaginatively named -
Eastern Beach -
With Rogers Park at the Northern end then about 1.5 kilometres of sandy foreshore. With an adjacent strip of grass, then the road with private dwellings lining the other side of the road until, at the end of the Esplanade there is McLeans Reserve, a grassed public park with car park.
Then after about 950 metres of rocky shoreline there is -
Mellons Bay Beach.
Has about 650 metres of sandy foreshore.With two car parks at the northern end and a sloping grassed picnic area.
Following the Auckland coast, the next section of East Auckland beaches from Okahu beach to Mellons beach is
2. Howick beach to Miranda beach.
Go to Auckland beaches from Auckland beach -Okahu-Mellons.
Go to North Shore beaches.
Go to North of North Shore Hibiscus Coast beaches.
Go to West Coast beaches.
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