We lived on Waiheke for a year and the daily constitutional was along the beach on Oneroa.

I found this a related and interesting read …

🔗 The Disappearance of the Public Bench – Pixel Envy

A bench is one of the few places you can sit and spend time for free. Their absence in so many public places is notable for what it says about who we consider part of the public.

All along one half of the Oneroa beach there are chairs to sit in. On?

They don’t belong to the houses. This is not a council service. This is just the love of a single person who noted that on such a vast and beautiful beach there was no place to casually sit - which particularly affects older / infirm people so took it upon themselves to keep the sitting places well populated and goes down twice a week to keep to add and restock the chairs. Yes I know who it is. No I won’t tell you. They travel under the radar.

Side note - the Rotary Club has placed (to date) 58 Public Access Defibrillation Units across Waiheke - so maybe it’s an ‘island thing’? Though I don’t recall one such machine on Maui when I lived there.