New Zealand Tongaporutu Beach
The coast at Tongaporutu is spectacular with sea stacks, rocky coast, black sandy beach and ball-shaped boulders.
Travel Information
From a parking lot at the Tongaporutu River, it's only at low tide on foot in the riverbed, which is lined here by a 30 m high bluff. After a few hundred meters the dark beach is reached, which at high tide is deep underwater.
As inviting as the beach is, so dangerous is the stay there. When the tide sets in, the partly deeper riverbed runs full and the way back is cut off!
As inviting as the beach is, so dangerous is the stay there. When the tide sets in, the partly deeper riverbed runs full and the way back is cut off!
Spot Type
Outdoor
Crowd Factor
Nearly no other people
Best Timing
Sunset in fall
Sunrise & Sunset
05:52 - 20:48
| current local time: 13:53
Photo Themes
black sand beach
Rock Formations
rocky beach
rocky coast
Sea Stacks
seascape
seashore
Locations
Tongaporutu
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