The beach is mostly flat rock. Hawkes Bay is built around the bay. Our community is about twenty-five meters above sea level. The bay is sheltered with trees. A lot of the land around Hawkes Bay is muddy and there are lots of trees around our community.
Some people use the land for growing crops.
They plant potatoes, carrots, turnip and other root crops for their own use. The growing season is too short to grow other crops here. There is no commercial farming done in our town. Behind our town, about 30 km away, there are mountains which are part of the Long Range Mountain chain along the Northen Peninsula. They are very beautiful with snow on them.