From the air
Okains Bay
A named beach on the city’s shore, at Okains Bay.
Where it sits
The pin sits on the beach’s ground; the strong outline is the suburb behind it, the rest are its neighbours.
Can you swim here
Okains Bay estuary, the LAWA monitor that is ~400 m away, LAWA’s long-term grade for it is very low risk.
A water-quality risk grade, not a live verdict, after heavy rain any spot can turn. LAWA (Land Air Water Aotearoa) files the Canterbury sites for Environment Canterbury; its page is the one to check on the day.
The ground under it
The plans and surveys kept here, asked once of the pin. The whole stack answers live: what stood on this ground →
Around it
The reports nearby
1 council report pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Vehicles & parking. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Questions, answered briefly
A named beach on Christchurch’s shore, at Okains Bay, as the open map records it.
The pin is OpenStreetMap’s own position for the beach, the beach’s own ground, or its centreline’s middle. Neighbours on the register are near it, not the same record.
The record behind this
The position and the names are OpenStreetMap’s, a named beach or island inside the city boundary (ODbL). The dual names are recorded as the map carries them; a pin is the mapper’s position, not a surveyed mark.
This page as markdown: /beach/okains-bay.md · the whole shore as data: /beach.geojson · on the big map: /map?layer=beach · the bays and headlands: /coast · every roll, counted: /geography.