Saturday, September 13, 2025

Hataitai Beach Parking

 Hi there

I'm sorry, but I am just about fed up with the road and beach repairs going on around Hataitai Beach.  They have now been at it for a year.  I found out last week that the road repairs might be finished by Wednesday which, I guess, in road repair-speak means December?

I used to always drive to the southern end of the beach looking for a parking spot  but I can't turn the car around to get to the spaces now; it  would entail knocking over a dozen road cones, plus the lollipop person holding up a stop-go sign.  And don't think I haven't visualised doing all that ...?

So I line up for ages waiting until he turns over that darn sign.  I drive past the beach as slow as a snail and get to the northern end to discover the parking spots there are full of road cones and bull-dozers.

I turn my car around.

Lollipop guy number 2 (northern end) ensures that I have to wait for ages before I'm allowed the privilege of driving back past the beach again, but this time on the seaward side of the road.

I beep my car horn to let my swimming friends know that I am trying to get to them before dark.  

Last week I did find a space opposite a stop-go guy who glared at me as I hopped out of the car and I moved a road cone from the gutter to the footpath.  I am such a rebel.

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