wharariki beach

For millions of people the image of a sunlit beach seen through the dark mouth of a sea cave is instantly familiar — it’s the Windows 10 lock‑screen photo that greeted users for years — but that image is not a Photoshop invention or a Hollywood backdrop: it’s a real place, the remote Wharariki...

You almost certainly already know this scene: the sunlit stretch of sand framed by a dark coastal cave, two jagged rock stacks rising like sentinels from a turquoise sea. It’s the image millions of Windows users see on their lock screens every day — and yes, that same photograph is of Wharariki...