Reef Point (Tauroa Peninsula, NZ) up for sale

[Mark_Guiniven]

http://surf.co.nz/newsletters/index.asp?newsletterId=3000

http://www.federatedfarmers.com/article.php?sid=339&catid=10

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3047194a7693,00.html

http://www.bluewaters.co.nz/69tauroa.html

[Norbert P]

 Friday, November 12, 2004

1 New Zealand Dollar = 0.68790 US Dollar
1 US Dollar (USD) = 1.45370 New Zealand Dollar (NZD)

Median price = 0.68740 / 0.68790 (bid/ask)
Minimum price = 0.68200 / 0.68300
Maximum price = 0.68840 / 0.68890

 1200 acres at 32% off !?  What are we waiting for?

 What's the asking price, btw? I've got a bag load o' empty beer bottles to cash in.

[peter_p]

Slag,
You're too late. Tenders closed yesterday. And I doubt if a golf course could have been built with all the ecologic and heritage concerns. You might remember the place in "Endless Summer", the epic surfing movie.  

[Tom_Doak]

Where, exactly, is that point?  I don't have a good World Atlas handy.

I hope Julian Robertson was bidding.

[Mike Nuzzo]

Would bunnies or sheep eat paspalum?

[RJ_Daley]

Mike, obviously cattle munch the stuff...  Hell, I'll even have a go at grazing that land.  I did notice that 3million (I assume NZ $s) was quoted, along with access only for two hours along the beach at low tides.  That might add to the mystic of a golf course there, where you have to shlep your clubs up the receded beach at just the right time, and be stranded there for 12 hours until the tide goes back out.

Doak if you would get a crack at this ground too, you might be thought of as sort of the chosen one, which brings in way too many religious-spiritual implications for my mind to get around.

[Mark_Guiniven]

Tom,
Watch the TVNZ story if you're curious. Click where it says "bid to shut out developers" and then choose your bandwidth. Reef Point is on the south coast of Ninety-Mile Beach. Almost directly across the other side of the island from Kauri Cliffs so it's probably the same tribe.



Dick's right, there's not even a proper road in there, but people use the beach as a bit of a highway. Probably easier access than Kidnappers!  

Mark,

[Mark_Guiniven]

Any good Tom? Almost give you a Bandon flashback that first pic wouldn't it? Cliffs a little lower.

[RJ_Daley]

Can any of you geographers or geologists out there explain the sharp line of vegitative growth from pure sand barrens to the more grassy dunes.  Is it only a matter that the point where the cattle graze was perhaps seeded?  Or, is there some other wind-precipitation-relative humidity going on there in a micro climate sort of way?  I really don't get that strip of sand barren bordered on each side by healthy grass and brush growth.

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