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Mangawhai Cliffs opens
The Mangawhai Cliffs Track opened Saturday, a 4-kilometre loop track benched into high land above the coast.
Conservation Minister Steve Chadwick cut the ribbon and praised the public contribution of Birnie Capital Partners which, while developing Bream Tail Farms into lifestyle blocks encased within a working farm, upgraded the public track on the coastal fringe. The new track is accessible from the northern end of Mangawhai Beach, 120 kilometres north of Auckland, and is described on the website www.doc.govt.nz/templates/trackandwalk.aspx?id=36948
This new Te Araroa link is legally secured, but won’t open until later this summer. It means Te Araroa walkers can come down the coast from Marsden Point to the Brynderwyn track, then join to the Mangawhai Cliffs walkway and through to Mangawhai township, and the first decent coffee in a while.
ADVISORY: The Marsden Point - Mangawhai Te Araroa section which now incorporates the Mangawhai Cliffs Walkways is legal, but not yet fully marked out. Those attempting the mainly coastal walk from Marsden Point should study tides - the estuary crossing at Ruakaka is tide dependent. And we haven’t yet solved the problem of crossing the Waipu River, so presently recommend going inland on Tip Road and across the Waipu River on the road bridge. If you cross at the mouth, you’re likely to be swept out to sea.
