Hi Rob B

I fish a lot up and down the Wairarapa east coast (and the south coast too). I did fish around in the Muka Muka area too although I never really got on to moki there - just the odd one. I went there mainly for lemons (spotty sharks) but the numbers around the Wairarapa coast has dropped markedly over the last 6 years.
I haven't fished the Muka Muka area for about 6 years. To be honest I found the track over there had got a bit too "hairy" for me in the 4WD. I was OK with the shingle/sand slide, the 20 degree "lean" was OK and of course coming back at night over the same spot you couldn't see the 250 foot drop to the beach directly below over your right shoulder anyway. What really got me was the last time I went over it was daylight. I got out to close a gate I had just gone through and saw that the track I had just rolled over had been undercut by heavy rain - with a bloody big drop down below. I spent the next 4 hours wondering, while I fished, whether it would give way under my wagon when I went back.
What is the track like now days? Have you, or anyone else, been over it on a regular basis recently in a 4WD?