with a residential community of both permanent and holiday homes. The beach is popular for surfing, swimming, recreational fishing, horse riding, walking and photography. Sports Otaki Golf Club established in 1901, is a links style 18 hole golf course located at the northern end of the historic Old Coach Road. Otaki Surf Life Saving Club actively patrols the beach during the summer. Other sports facilities include rugby, rugby league, netball, swimming, wakaama, water polo, football, squash, and tennis. Community The Māoriland Film Festival which began in 2014 is held annually in Otaki with a focus on indigenous film content. The Otaki Museum is located at 49 Main Street in the former BNZ building and provides access to local history collections, oral histories, photographs and documents. Infrastructure and services Both State Highway 1 and the North Island Main Trunk railway passes through the town, connecting it with Paraparaumu and Wellington to the south and Levin, Palmerston North and ultimately Auckland in the north. The Peka Peka to Ōtaki section of the Kapiti Expressway opened in December 2022, allowing State Highway 1 through traffic to bypass the town. Prior to the expressway opening, the highway through the town and especially the roundabout with Mill Road were a traffic bottleneck; at holiday periods, Wellington-bound traffic could queue for up to north of the roundabout. Electra operates the electricity distribution network in Ōtaki. The town is normally supplied from Transpower's national grid at its Paraparaumu substation, but can be switched to be supplied from the Mangahao substation near Shannon. The town's fresh water supply is drawn from three groundwater bores. Education Early Learning Schools Ōtaki Montessori School is a co-educational pre-school for children from ages 2–6. Ōtaki Early Learning Centre is a co-educational pre-school for children of age 2 and above. Primary schools Otaki School is a co-educational state primary school for Year 1 to 6 students. with a roll of as of . St Peter Chanel School is a co-educational state-integrated Christian primary school for Year 1 to 8 students. with a roll of . Kura Kaupapa Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Te Rito is a co-educational state Kura Kaupapa Māori school for Year 1 to 13 students, with a roll of as of . Te Kura-a-iwi o Whakatupuranga Rua Mano is a co-educational state Māori language immersion school for Year 1 to 13 students, with a roll of . Secondary school Otaki