Found this beautiful island on a beautiful beach. Today we took the coast route home from Dunedin, and we’ve passed this beach access before. I thought it looked very inviting but it’s one of those entrances that’s hard to spot in time and next thing you’ve already whizzed past. Today we decided to turn around and go explore! New Zealand.
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The beach name is actually Ocean View. My title refers to the idyllic little island we came across when we walked along the beach. Nigel took these photos while I was taking mine 🙂
Text by Liz, photos by Nigel; Exploring Colour (2021)
Exploring Colour 
For all the times we stopped at beaches on our drives around NZ, I’m trying to remember if we ever saw a little isolated formation like this one. How common are they?
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Both Nigel and I are like … “pretty common” as we think about places we’ve seen on the south coast and on the east coast of the north island. These seemed prettier than usual though!
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Wow, so worth the u-turn, Liz! Practically any beach would be, but this was doubly so with that island.
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Yes! We were both so pleased that we did the u-turn despite that being a rather awkward maneuver. Well worth it 🙂
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