Recently I was out at Bethells recording sound for a promo "film" shot on the new RED camera. The Director wanted some atmos tracks of the area so I went off and here's the stream that winds it's way down to the ocean (recorded around 2km's inland, not far from Wheelers farm where Xena & countless other tv series/films have been shot.)

Te Henga (Bethells Beach) is a coastal community located in the north of the North Island, New Zealand. The Māori name Te Henga, meaning sand, originally applied to a wide area of the lower Waitakere River valley, but in 1976 the New Zealand Geographic Board changed the name of the beach to from Bethells Beach to Te Henga. The Te Henga Valley shows evidence of human settlement dating back over 1000 years. The area is rich culturally as well as naturally with a large number of significant sites, including food gathering areas, pa, walkways, canoe landings and sacred places.

FYI: Most people still refer to this place as Bethells Beach.