HAWKES BAY: HASTINGS

Clifton Rd Reserve is another prime location in Hawkes Bay, and provides a large on-grass parking area along the beach front, which is available for overnight parking in self-contained vans.

Along with the Evers-Swindell reserve, this is one of our favorite locations. It''s well used by motor caravanners and the local community, has well maintained toilets and rubbish collection, 

This is a good location to keep in mind if the Evers-Swindell Reserve is already full, as there is plenty of room, and it's unlikely that you won't find somewhere to park.

This is also one of the few places that we've seen where you can see both a spectacular sunset and sunrise.

The sunset slide below was taken at 8:45pm, and the sunrise picture in the slideshow was taken at 5:20am the following morning. 

The local council does ask for a voluntary gold coin donation - the honesty box is in front of the public toilets.

UPDATE 25-Nov-2014:

This is one of our favourite locations in the Hawkes Bay, and when we visited again with some friends, we noticed that the local council has built some really nice new public toilets. - now pictured below.