Estuary Walk and Naughty Boys Island

This walk along the lower reaches (the saltmarsh) of the Avon River is about an hour return. The New Brighton bus (# 29) is the nearest.
Naughty boys Island is to your west as you walk from the start. Why you may ask does it have this name.
Stuff reports, "It has tragic origins.In April 1961, Frank Raymond Murray, 12, and Peter Edward Leary, 13, were playing on the island, digging a cave in the soft sand. When the cave collapsed, they were trapped under the sand and suffocated. The Press report on their deaths states that it took an hour to recover their bodies from the sand.The island is not a welcoming place. It is a chilly expanse of slippy tidal mud, dark reeds and flotsam stranded in the last high tide. Even without its dark past, it is already a bleak place."