Paihia sandcastle competition
Paihia's week-long Summer Festival wound up on Saturday with the popular sandcastle competition, which saw more than 40 teams compete for creativity and prizes such as helicopter rides and boat trips. This year's entries ranged from Matauri Bay's Rainbow Warrior Monument replicated in sand, marking the first visit to Northland of the new Greenpeace flagship, to a giant weta and native centipede, the sea god Tangaroa, sharks, marlins and turtles. One group even made a scaled-up version in sand of a German backpacker's new silver fern tattoo.
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