Down the road is McKays Crossing where there was a big US Matine's training camp in WW2. Ten US Navy sailors lost their lives, in 1943 at the beach during a landing exercise during bad weather.. Now Queen Elisabeth11 Par and memorial there.

Kapiti has grown from a beachy bach town to a metropolis in 50 years, Curls. If you want a stunning, peaceful beach - Pukerua Bay! Or even south of Paraparaumu, Raumati Beach, Plimmerton, or north to Waikanae - it's all stunning! We don't know how lucky we are!! ❤👌

You're a man of your word, thanks for coming! If you get a chance don't sleep on Paekak.

Didn't realise how nice that part of the country is, too many people just drive through it. For something completely different you should visit Canterburys alpine villages, especially in winter. Hanmer Springs, Castle hill, Methven, Tekapo, Mt Cook... People often skip Canterbury, and just go to the famous spots like Queenstown, Wanaka, and Milford Sound, despite it being just as nice, not that that being quiet is a bad thing though.

Places like Kapiti we say "for the newly wed, or nearly dead" - my town (Whanganui) was like that. If you wanna see a Truly epic New Zealand beach, you've got to get up to the coromandel and to Hot Water beach.

By the way the thing they were building at around 3:00 is a block of town houses and they are replacing some pipes from under the road or something, it’s caused a lot of traffic problems and it is super annoying

Raglan and Russel are two beach towns I can highly recommend. If you ever found your way up to Hamilton ( We live in Putaruru, blue spring walk is Fkn nice here btw ) we'd be more than happy to pick you up and drive you over the divvy to Raglan for a day trip.

I cannot believe that place is amazing! Plus, the locals won my heart.... they are so nice!! Thanks Curls

My brother lives there, so spent a lot of time in Paraparaumu. Surprised you didn’t check out Coastlands - you love a good mall 😂. There’s a giant statue of the Virgin Mary on the hill overlooking the town which I can remember from back in the 70s. The building site by the train station is a new transport hub, apparently.

Try the Kapiti Ice Cream mate,the Apple Crumble is pretty special .

You should go to Mangawhai heads they have some of the best beaches & everyone there is really chill & friendly

Curls, I think you would be blown away by how real NZ looks in Microsoft Flight Simulator. 😂 Awesome video by the way :) Kapiti is just gorgeous!

The maddest thing of all was walking all the way down Kapiti Road and back, haha. Did you miss Coastlands entirely? Anyway, come back in January...

Churls, back in the NZ!

The kapiti coast is so underated, i grew up there, and watching this brought back so much nostalgia! I hope to move back there some day.

Can't beat our beautiful beaches Curls 🤩 😁 glad you enjoyed it 😁

Love your videos; any chance we can have a non-mirrored one next time? Offputting seeing all the cars drive on the right hand side of the road!

One of the many beautiful beaches on that coast . . . they call the loud cars, having a split in the exhaust pipe, to make that noise. I think my memory is right on that. LOl. . . Kiwi from Virginia

Next time you're in Parapara check out Saltys bro. Great beers and Burgers. Plus Pinball !!!

I had no idea, that's where I stayed for a few days. Paremata was where I was. Free freedom camping. I miss that place.

Haha good to see you paid us a visit! Saw my mate driving. We do seem to like our cars but today (Sunday) there was a sunday drive parade sorta thing. I saw them driving in-between shifts. Come again!

Curls you have to go to gissy (Gisborne) the most beautiful beaches ever and gissy is such a laid back place. That’s my home town.

Love your commentary Curls your the best 👍

Kia Ora Curls. Come to the Marlborough Sounds - it will knock your socks off lolol.

Most beach towns in New Zealand are really amazing and the locals are very welcoming, don’t think we have any beach towns like the old days where it was just batch and a local dairy, pub and maybe a servo, but I’m planing on finding out when I do my own travels along our beautiful coasts, glad you enjoyed your time Curls, and yes summer our beaches are all crazy, the loud cars, we’re probably all like the red Nissan skyline 🖤🙏

Hey man glad to see you made it home ok after your trip to Asia...

Thanks for coming to Paraparaumu! Great video like always

Hi Curls. I love watching your channel and seeing what a well traveled, not NZ born resident finds interest here. PARAPARAUMU BEACH is just great and we holiday there often at an airbnb place called Kiwi Beach Bach just over the road from the park and beach. Quintessential kiwi. I am looking forward to knowing what your career is at what you plan to do next.😊

i have lived in Kapiti most of my life and i can say it is the best place to live and raise a family next time ur in town come into butlers chocolate café some of the best Irish chocolate u will ever have my dude

Bro I was literally in Paraparaumu on Friday! Guttered I never crossed paths. Hopefully we'll see you up Hawke's Bay ways some day soon

Public Trust , AA , Florist , Pharmacy , Doctor's Surgery , Accountant - Yep ! it's a retirement community

You are too funny !!😂

great pod cast You are a legend you don’t get given respect you earn respect 👍🏽😎

I remember going to Waikanae beach (the next beach to the north) with my parents in the early 60's. Huge waves! But then , I was probably only 2 foot tall at the time

Nice. Try the Hibiscus Coast, some time. Used to live there as a kid and would love to see how it has changed. Big Manly beach was our daily swim.

I wonder what you will say about the far north (if you find it 🙂)

Statue @ 9:07 ....quite 'symbolic' of our present turbulent times.... "They're" coming for our Children...

I always love when you end up at an empty car park 😂 with lots of hairdressers

I was there at Xmas and found just about everything closed but we did have a awesome feed of fish chips and burgers. You also missed the Southward Car Museum with everything from a Delorean to Al Capones bullet proof car

We have lived all over NZ moving a lot with husbands work - Paraparaumu (Param to the locals) is the most beautiful, relaxed and warm place out of all the places we've been. I look back on our time there with happiness. Originally from England, we're in the Shaky City now so I'm off to watch the Christchurch video now ... oh and subscribed.

Yeah I like Paraparaumu too! My Grans both used to live there.

I’d love to come back to New Zealand someday and see some of the not so well known places ❤🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Beautiful beach 🏝️

Glad to see you in Kāpiti bro 🙏🙏

What do you do for a living over there?

when you hear the RB and you its know an Rb

Some ten years ago when I drove up from Wellington to Auckland, right pass Palmerston North and I took the wrong turn, so instead of SH1 I have gone into the mountains and in the middle of literally no where. Phone got no signal and I got no idea where I was, so I kept on up the tinny road, saw a bloke on his quad bike with a few dying sheep, we both stopped for a bit of a chat as the road was so narrow and it was an intersection. "Down the road would be Palmerston North and God know it where it goes up the road" He told me, the young lad had only been to place 10 miles up and 10 miles down the road, nowhere else. I assume it was not far from the place of your video and somehow my memory popped up. Bless that young man and hope he reached Wellington by far.

I think a lot of locals would do well to watch some of your videos - you are so positive and complimentary- that apartment block quite rightly yuck.

You can camp on Kapiti Island and go looking for wild Kiwi birds at night.

Love this

You are very kind, but that strip of town looks so boring to me, as a kiwi, that I would never bother stopping there if I were driving through

I used to live there ❤

Yes it's cold and has the kapiti black widow spider...!!!😅

I lived in kapti cost it is wonderful

My man you came to my home town respect

Just comes from Vietnam and then Melbourne, a city with nearly 6 million people and wow this place is chaos 🤣 too funny

you should go to Titahi Bay. If you thought that beach was beautiful, titahi bay beach will blow you away

Mate if you come back to pram beach you need to go to Ben’s buns

Anywhere near the coast is special.

Dude , you have a lot discover in NZ. Kapiti beach is okay. There are a lot more better beaches though.

I'm pretty sure it's spring not middle of winter 😂😂😂 paraparaumu rocks

Carpety coast.....🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣nice....!

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I will correct you we have just finished winter 😂

Then there's beautiful Gisborne my former hometown :) P.S. they're called boy racers lol

When I lived in Welly I got told off for saying Carpety, apparently it should be Cap-eat-y

nice videos mate

Paraparaumu! My home town!

I actually want to live in Paraparaumu one day

Mate even down south I cant go a night without hearing someone with no exhaust pipe

Nice part of the country

You should go to Masterton next 😂

They are building, or rebuilding, the drainage system.

Surf Highway is the best coastline ❤

Officially spring now mate

have you had BurgerFuel yet?

@4:05 the driver in that red car. Pretty sure that's my much younger (and immaturer, is that a word?) brother. Don't call him a legend 🤣

The beaches are more beautiful further North.

I used to live there,and there are way better beaches in other places.

That's not new zealand!. New Zealand is a small country between the bombbay hills and the Albany hills

Bro! You should be getting paid from NZ tourism for promoting our Awesome Country!

I was gonna be your tour guide

You should have gone to Rays pies and Fries on Kapiti Rd. Best pies in New Zealand in my humble opinion. You also should have gone to see my beloved sister and nephew on Beachwater Grove, but never mind. 😁 I live in Auckland, but my family live in Paraparaumu and it's my soul happy place. Great review, love. Cheers! 👍❤️😁

Dude! I live here! Edit: first my hometown of Manurewa, then Paraparaumu. Hope you keep enjoying bro! Arohanui x

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Yes bro ma breeding ground Kapiti coast fncken rep hard but not the bs haha