{"id":74919,"date":"2025-10-13T03:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T03:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/74919\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T03:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T03:58:10","slug":"tide-traps-tourist-on-sunday-stroll-to-an-island-in-east-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/74919\/","title":{"rendered":"Tide traps tourist on Sunday stroll to an island in east Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"

A tourist took an ill-advised stroll to an island on the east coast of Auckland yesterday \u2013 only to discover the incoming tide had closed off his return trip.<\/p>\n

Senior Sergeant Garry Larsen of the Auckland Marine Rescue Centre said police were called last night after a man was caught out by the tide after walking from Pine Harbour to Motukaraka Island.<\/p>\n

Officers found the international visitor’s vehicle in the carpark, while police helicopter Eagle searched areas around the island.<\/p>\n

“The crew quickly advised they had found a man lying down on the top of a concrete structure,” Larsen said.<\/p>\n

The man was picked up by the Police boat, Deodar.<\/p>\n

\"Eagle<\/p>\n

Eagle located a man clinging to his kayak at Mahurangi Inlet. (Source: NZ Police)<\/p>\n

The Sunday rescue capped an eventful week for the rescue service.<\/p>\n

Kayaker in distress<\/p>\n

About midday on Friday, a pilot of a small plane over the Mahurangi Inlet contacted police after noticing a kayaker who had fallen out and was struggling to get back in.<\/p>\n

The Eagle was deployed and quickly located the man, said air support unit supervisor Sergeant Mark Jamieson.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe crew observed a fishing boat nearby, so flew low and close, signalling them to follow us,” he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey retrieved the male from the water, with him reporting he had been like that for over an hour.”<\/p>\n

The man was taken to shore where an ambulance was waiting to treat him for hypothermia.<\/p>\n

\"Two<\/p>\n

Two teenagers were located 20 metres form the top of the cliff and around 50m from the beach below. (Source: NZ Police)<\/p>\n

Teenagers in trouble<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, the Eagle crew were required after reports of two teenagers stuck on the side of a cliff in Whangapar\u0101oa Bay.<\/p>\n

The teenagers were found around 20m from the top of the cliff, and 50m from the beach below.<\/p>\n

Jamieson said they were “holding on to trees to stay put as the rocks underneath them fell away”.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the assistance of Search and Rescue and FENZ the duo were able to repel access down to the beach below.”<\/p>\n

He stressed that it was lucky all three situations ended positively, and people were reminded to call 111 as soon as possible if they got into trouble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A tourist took an ill-advised stroll to an island on the east coast of Auckland yesterday \u2013 only…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-74919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-auckland","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}