Cape Reinga/Ninety-Mile Beach

• Day bus trip

• You can drive your car up to Cape Reinga

• It is not recommended that you drive back on Ninety-Mile Beach like the bus tour does

Kerikeri

• 50 Minute drive south on Highway 10

• Kemp House and Old Stone Store

• Lunch at Tearooms opposite

• Good fruit stands along the main road

Bay of lslands

• Hour drive south on Highway 10

• Cream Cruise - Waitangi Treaty House

• Most tours can be booked at Fullers Booking Office in the Mangonui Stationery on the waterfront in Mangonui

Horse Riding on Ninety-Mile Beach

• Waitaha Horse Trails on Roma Road Ahipara

Dining

• Mangonui Pub offers good food after 6 pm

• Old Oak Inn just past the Pub specializes in seafood - BYOB

• Excellent lunches at Café Nina on the waterfront in Mangonui. Home made soup and good ham rolls.

Shopping

• 4-Square Market in Mangonui

• Coopers Beach for groceries

• Fruits and veggies at the shop just past petrol station in Mangonui

• Pak and Save in Kaitaia

Mail

• Post Office located in the 4-Square Market in Mangonui

• Stamps can be purchased and mail received

• Receiving mail - your name, General Delivery, Mangonui, Northland, and New Zealand

Drives

• Taupo Bay is a few kilometers south of Mangonui

• Matai Bay on the Karikari peninsula

  • Beautiful beaches

  • Good for picnics

  • Safe for swimming

Crafts

• Craft shop is in Mangonui near the wharf

Glow-worm Nocturnal Park

• Turn off at Taipa

• Take a picnic

• Wait for dark

• View the glow-worms and Kiwi birds

Surfing

• Taupo Bay, just south of Mangonui. Pretty spot, best on easterly swells with west winds.

• Shipwrecks/Ninety-Mile Beach

  • Drive 30 minutes through Ahipara, the south end of Ninety-Mile Beach

  • Shipwrecks is the first point

  • If that is not breaking, drive around the rocks

  • Can be rough the first 100 meters

  • Beautiful stretches of beach and world class waves

Canoes - Dinghies - Windsurfers - Kayaks

• Aquapulse Surf Shop in Kaitaia

Fishing

• Mangonui Pier or Deep Sea Fishing. Boats leave from Mangonui. Either Leilani or Happy Hooker.

• More fishing in the Bay of lslands

Walks

• Rangikapiti Maori Pa just behind the house. Beautiful 360 view.

• Coopers Beach just below the house

• Mangonui Harbor. Walk to the end of Rangikapiti Road and down the track.