[8] In 2016, the Overseas Investment Office granted a Chinese company, Weihai Station, approval to buy 595 hectares of coastal land.

[9] Part of the land will be used for a lodge and training facility, with the rest continuing to operate as a sheep and beef farm.

[11] Also in 2016, a secretive group began tunneling into the side of road searching for the skeletons of a mythical race of pre-Polynesian giants.

[13] The area features the 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) long Nikau Cave, which has limestone pillars, stalactites and stalagmites.

[16] A British analysis of TripAdvisor reviews in 2020 identified the cave as one of New Zealand's best secret tourist spots.

[17][18] Philip and Anne Woodward moved to the area in 1978,[14] purchasing a 204 hectare sheep and dairy farm that included Nikau Cave.

[21] There is also a path beside Waikaretu Stream, through QEII protected areas of bush, from near the cave to the foot of a waterfall.