Actually its Ngarunui Beach according to my map (or the Ocean Beach near Raglan), but if your talking to a kite buggy pilot, you'd probably just call it Charlie's Beach. Charlie, a kite buggier, kite designer/builder, and veteran Muriwai Moose Meet attendee from Raglan invited me to come and have a buggy on his beach on my way back home from my adventure in the far north. An offer I couldn't refuse.
I spent an afternoon last Thursday cruising up an down this lovely beach. Charlie arrived later in the day (after he finished working) and we buggied till sunset. That was the last chance I got to fly a kite on my holiday and I could think of a better way to top it all off, than a quiet buggy in a light breeze along a beautiful beach, into a setting sun.
We weren't the only things flying above the beach that day. Here Butterfly Dave searches for lift along the hilltops above the beach.
Charlie and his magic 4 meter c-quad.
Charlie going backward. How fast was it Charlie? 60, 70 kph?
The early stages of the sunset...
...and the last light of the day, just after I finished packing the van for the night drive South, toward home.
10:25:39 PM 
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