The spot where Jack Dixon was swept to sea has been marked with touching tributes to the missing 5-year-old.
The small area by Shelly Beach is lined with colourful ornamental pinwheels blowing in the wind and shells dangling from a tree on long pieces of string.
A tree growing out of a bank bordering the Mauao base track has created a natural shelf, which is now home to a pencil sketch of Jack wearing his All Blacks shirt. It is surrounded by shells painted red and blue - the colours of Jack's favourite hero Spiderman. A teddy bear sits with a bunch of red-and-blue flowers.
On a patch of grass near the rocks, Jack's name is picked out with shells and bordered by bunches of flowers.
Groups of people walking around the base track stop when they see the tributes. They pause to take it all in then turn and look out to the sea that has yet to return Jack to his family.