Hawke's Bay Regional Council is wrong to label the Waitangi Regional Park initiative an "enhancement project".
Wrong because it's in fact a metamorphosis.
It was only a year ago that I was whitebaiting adjacent to said park with my sons when we decided to leave due the fouled nature of its environs.
On each incoming wave our net was filled with plastic bottle tops and some sort of tissue paper - and that was after walking past a burnt-out car body and the aftermath of a litter festival.
To boot, as I parked to surfcast in the area about 10 years ago the first piece of advice I received from a local was "be sure to lock your car".