Walk 30, Mangawhai Heads, 1 March 2020
A walk along Mangiwhai Heads at the beginning of March before NZ was unnecessarily shut down from the Covid-19 scare. This beach is about an hour’s drive north of us.
From Mangawhai Beach, we climbed 167 metres up to the ridge and followed the track above the bush covered cliffs. The coastline to the south is Te Arai and Cape Rodney.
North of the heads is Waipu and Bream Bay. The offshore islands are the Hen and Chicken Islands.
Walk: Northland 32
Land ownership: The Mangawhai Purchases of 1854 and 1874 were again made by an agreement between Ngati-Whatua and the Crown. The southern boundary of the 50,000-acre purchase was along the “old tribal line” to Te Arai Point, which is now also the Arai Parish line. So it was outside the Mahurangi line. The Thames-Hauraki tribes recognised the tribal line as the limits of their interests and made no issue on that point. Neither did the Ngapuhi-related Ngati-Wai.
From THE ROCK AND THE SKY The Story of Rodney County by H. Mabbett.
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Bennetts at Mangiwhai is a nice place to go for food and chocolate, and they support the Fairy tern trust.
Related posts:
Te Arai Regional Park – south of Mangiwhai Heads
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