Cable Bay tombolo links the Glenduan headland with Pepin Island to north, and forms the north-western arm of the Delaware Estuary. An unsealed track runs along the Delaware Estuary side of the tombolo providing easy access to car parking areas at either end of the beach. Cable Bay is a popular recreation beach with local Cable Bay café, campsite and Doc Reserve with toilet and parking facilities within minute’s walk of the beach. The cobble beach has a launch site for trailer boats to fish in the bay or off the headland outside the Horoirangi Marine Reserve. Pepin Island is a working farm and generally not open to public access. Cable Bay has a host of activities, including walking between Cable Bay and the Glenduan beach along the headland, kayaking along Pepin island coast and caves, snorkelling and fishing along the coastal reefs, rock pooling, fossicking and picnics on the beach. Cable Bay is accessed via Cable Bay Road, which passes Happy Valley Adventures, a shooting range, kayak hire and Paremata Flats Reserve, which has remnant native lowland coastal forest and estuarine habitat and important botanical and ornithological interest. Whitebaiting is popular in the lower reaches of the Wakapuaka River, which runs through the Reserve to the Delaware Bay delta. The recreation bathing water quality sample is taken from the northern end of the beach where the main boat access is located.

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