Onetangi Beach

Onetangi Beach is located in Onetangi Bay; Waiheke Island (located in the Hauraki Gulf) is New Zealand’s third most populated island. This immense stretch of beautiful white sandy beach is 2.5 kilometres (15.53 miles) making it the largest beach on Waiheke Island. Onetangi Beach is a firm favourite with locals and visitors, who come to swim, surf kayak and enjoy its family safe waters. Look out to Great Barrier and Little Barrier Islands from Onetangi Beach, and on a clear sunny day, catch a glimpse of the Coromandel Peninsula. The Onetangi Beach Race (normally held annually in March) has been running for more than 100 years now, it is here where horse racing has attracted both mainland and local horses to compete against one another. The Onetangi beach race, is a charity event fun-filled day where not just horses race but tractors and waiters compete, sand castle building is encouraged, tug of war teams compete, fashion in the field is held, and many stalls hold local fare and goods to tempt the hundreds of people who come to enjoy the friendly atmosphere.