About New Brighton Beach
New Brighton is a small town ashore of the ocean. This town, even though small, has a mall where you can find coffee at Peirside Cafe and Bar, hot water pools He Puna Taimoana and on Saturday, the famous Seaside Market, and many other businesses.
It is a very pleasant little town, quite like any New Zealand town.
You have the beach right in front, and this is Christchurch Beach. The beach next to it is Shag Rock Beach, Rapanui. Both are pleasant, although New Brighton is longer, much longer.
This beach is an 18-kilometer (11 miles) sandy beach comprised of South New Brighton, New Brighton, and North New Brighton. The sand is dark and thick. It remains the beach in Busan, South Korea, where I used to run with my military unit. The sandy floor is sturdy and so much easier to run.
The original pier was made of wooden construction, opened on 18 January 1894, and was pulled down in October 1965. This new pier is around 700 feet long.
The pleasure of being on the beach
This beach doesn’t have many rocks and seashell fragments covering the beaches. It seems this beach has no drastic slope. It looks flat. Maybe it’s why there are no huge waves.
I like to sit and stare at the waves. It lifts my mood and makes me feel safe. It’s like it cleans my mental clutter. The sound of the seagulls and the waves calm and give me a state of serenity. Scientifically, being at the beach will decrease your blood pressure and stress hormones. It’s also proven that salt and minerals in the ocean water soothe the aching pain, and I notice that they accelerate the healing of scrapes on my skin. Come and try it yourself!
The ocean’s roar is music to the soul