An off-duty Coastguard on a jet ski has rescued a woman swept out to sea in the Hokianga.
Northland police serious crash investigator Senior Constable Jeff Cramp said the woman was out near the blow-hole at South Head near Omapere when she got into trouble on today.
She was pulled through the blow-hole and out to sea, and has managed to clamber up onto some rocks.
The woman was believed to have been walking on the rocks with her sister when she fell into the water and was sucked out through the blow-hole.
She was in an "isolated spot" for a short time before she was rescued, Cramp said.