Proposals to turn the Cape Coast into a tourist Mecca; redesigning Te Awanga around a diverted Maraetotara river and a gannet theme park on Cape Kidnappers, caught locals by surprise in recent decades. The first was deadly serious and got so far as a consent application, the second seemed too outrageous to be true, and indeed proved to be a prank played by the local newspaper. Concrete contractor John Cheetham’s plan to create a man-made lake and marina hit the news in Octobe

In April 2021 the Coop family celebrate 100-years and four generations of farming on Tuki Tuki Station which backs on to Shaw’s Tiromoana property and Clifton Estate on the foothills of Cape Kidnappers. William Pritchard (W.P) Coop and his wife Ada, the grandparents of present owner Kip Coop, acquired the property in April 1920 but the 100-year designation is only applicable from when they first began actively farming the property a year later. The Coop family had originally