Strong individualists, tough, get-on-and-do-it folk. Started everything at Piha, cut the tracks, made tennis courts, surf clubs, library, post office, built the baches out of car cases and waste timber, 27 clubs even now. Always did it together.

Hard partying folk, a few affairs around the place, summer romances, broken hearts, bloody marys, vice versas, get over-it, devoted to Piha first and forever.