tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40826366770163151172011-07-28T18:53:17.334-07:00John Pryor AREINZ Kawau Island's & the Greater Kawau Bay's Resident Property Specialists Special properties - homes and land - for sale on sub-tropical Kawau Island, and in the Greater Kawau Bay area of Northern New Zealand's upper Hauraki Gulf. John Pryor AREINZ is Kawau Island’s only resident property specialist. If you wish to own or rent a part of paradise on Kawau Island, talk to us. We are passionate experts on the subject.John Pryor AREINZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10138564351970266868noreply@blogger.comBlogger91100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082636677016315117.post-33002014133627815242011-03-26T15:24:00.001-07:002011-03-26T15:37:26.806-07:00

I don't mind wet weather on Kawau. It gives me a chance to catch up on reading, do the house work I've been putting off and catch up on various odd jobs around the house. It also provides time for reflection, a time to slow down and, a time to enjoy the serenity of where I live. Often, there is nobody else around which brings out all the wading birds in the estuary as well as the wood pigeons,

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A large part of my winter and pre winter activities seem to revolve around gathering, sawing and splitting firewood. Here on Kawau we are fortunate to have virtually unlimited supplies of Kanuka which is one of the best fire fuels you can get.If I am really organised, I start the process in late Summer/early Autumn by selecting the trees that have fallen over or died during the previous

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Winter on the island is a very special time with fewer people around, more bird life evident and, some truly stunning, still sunny days.At night, the smell of wood fire smoke drifts around the coves and, for some reason, the skys seem even clearer than normal.At other times like today, the rain pours down, filling the water tanks and raising the water table to keep the bush flourishing. A great

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Easter on Kawau Island, like many other places, marks the end of Summer and the onset of Winter. It tends to be the last long break of the year and most Kawau property owners come up for the holiday break.One of the tradtitional island Easter events is the Mahurangi Cruising Club Easter Regatta which is based in North Cove.While not as big as the Anniversary weekend regatta, there are a good

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One of the unique things about Kawau Island is the Kawau Island Advisory Committee (KIAC)KIAC was first set up in the 1980's as a body that could liase between the Rodney District Council and the residents and property owners of Kawau Island. At the time there were only two such organisations in the country (the other was in the South Island). The latter no longer exists so KIAC is the one and

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I was thinking recently about the things that bought me to Kawau Island to live and came to the conclusion that one of the most important was yachts and yachting.Having been a keen recreational sailor for many years, like many other boat owners, I had visited and enjoyed Kawau as both a destination and a place to stop over and visit.No matter what direction the wind is from, you can always find a

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Those of you who don't live here or have property here, may not realise that we have a very active and well trained team of volunteers who: fight fires, respond to medical emergency's and carry out civil defence tasks.The volunteer fire force was first set up in 1997 with the guidance and help of the Department of Conservation and it grew and evolved from that point to its present size of 17

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There has been some debate recently on the style and size of houses that are built on the island. One example of this was illustrated in a recent (Feb. 14) piece in the Herald on Sunday on a proposed house for Kawhiti Point at the North Eastern end of the island. The Kawhiti Point property was subdivided and developed a couple of years ago and comprises seven large lots accessed over a private

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So what do we know about Kawau real estate? How much of it is there? Who owns it? How often does it sell? Who buys it and what is it worth? At the risk of boring you with too much information and not enough entertainment, I will try to answer all these questions briefly in the following paragraphs. Most properties on Kawau Island are purchased primarily because the buyers like the island, rather

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