The Herald Travel’s annual Best Beach competition has hung up its jandals for another year, but celebrations are only just ...
A video has emerged of a teenage boy repeatedly punching a live octopus in the head at a Bay of Plenty beach while his friends film it and cheer him on.
Stretching from the southern Coromandel Peninsula to the East Cape, the Bay of Plenty encompasses 4,700 square miles of rich farmland, dense forests, sunny beaches and an active geology.