My last day in Whangarei I traveled down to Mangawhai to do the Mangawhai Heads walk with a couple friends. The walk can only been done at low tide if you do part of the walk on the beach and then come back along the top of the cliffs. We decided to do the beach first to enjoy the view from the top looking back while we were walking.
Along the way we got to check out some low tide sea creatures that had been left behind.
Parts of the walk were mostly over rocky parts under the cliffs that were covered in broken sea shells. I had never seen so many all in one place!
We could see the cliffs we would be on top for the second half of the walk and I really don't think you can have a bad view on this track no matter what direction you do it.
You know that you have reached the end and are ready to climb the cliffs when you get to walk through a sea arch! It was really an amazingly rough part of the coast.
It took awhile to get climbed up from the beach but this was the view you were rewarded with once you made it to the top. There were a LOT of stairs to climb to get there though!
I found the way that trees grew sideways off cliffs a little bit fascinating.
We made it back just in time as the weather was starting to get a bit rough looking. Our reward for the walk was brunch at Bennett's Chocolates of Mangawhai. The food was amazing and they have some pretty great chocolates there as well.
The chocolate shop portion is filled with things like this chocolate shell holding a variety of sea themed chocolates and a huge display case of pretty much every type of chocolate you could imagine all made right there in Mangawhai. I even picked up a few chocolates to send back home to my parents.
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