Beach is typical of many beaches along the eastern Peninsula. The beach started developing 6,000 to 7,000 years ago. The process of beach building has now finished and the beach has all the sand it is ever going to get.
Early Maori communities removed most of the original coastal forest and dune plants. Then farmers introduced stock to the dune area, disturbing the native sand-binding grasses and causing severe wind erosion. Most of the sand reserves eroded. This reduced the height of the dunes and caused sheets of sand to move more than 200 m inland.
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