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BUSH WALKS
You can enjoy bush walks on private property around the lodge. These walks are for experienced walkers, on a bluff and steep and not for those who do not want to get dirty. Leave your jandals at home - to keep you safe, proper walking shoes are required on steep tracks. The waterfall and three hour bush walks are closed at present.
GLOWWORM GROTTO
Five minutes return. Go after dark to the glowworm theatre dug down into the earth. It has to be dark to see their magical glow! Watch the giant walking sticks perform in the branches left and right stage. Torches available from reception.
CHOPPERS TRACK
45 minutes return. This old maori track takes you zig zag down the ancient bluff to Onepoto Beach.
ONEPOTO BEACH
Share, support, embrace one another while experiencing a walk down Choppers Track to the beach. Pretend you can see Zachariah Hicks telescope sighting the Bay in 1769! Give him a wave. Tell him this place already has a name "Wharekahika".
GIANT PURIRI
Together investigate new cultures to see what they have preserved on a ten to fifteen minutes return walk to an impressive Puriri tree the size of a small car.
WORLDS SUNRISE FROM THE LODGE
Create and build strong vibrant bonds in the peaceful early hours of sunrise from the Lodge. Take a walk or short drive up the hill to the Scenic Lookout (brown signage), or walk part way down to the Glowworm Grotto. The first corner is a nice view of the sunrise looking out to sea.
HICK BAY WHARF AND FISHING
There's fish, fish and more fish! Get your fresh catch from the rocky ledges around the Wharf. We sell bait, fishing supplies and fishing poles at our small shop on site. Getting There: From Highway 35 turn off at Wharf Road and carry on over a one lane bridge. Continue past the old freezing works to the Wharf car park. For more information on rules and quota see MAF. Ranfurley Banks.
TE WAHA O REREKOHU
New Zealand's most ancient pohutukawa tree, more than 600 years old is found in the tiny coastal settlement of Te Araroa. And stop into the regions art gallery, Gallery 57 Te RuruKainga and hunt up some unique and authentic local art on Waione Road, Te Araroa.
EAST CAPE LIGHTHOUSE GUIDE
Getting There public access: To reach the easernmost point of mainland New Zealand, travel the coast on a sealed and unsealed road from Te Araroa. Then pass several tubular concretions of ancient plumbing and follow the foreshore to the car park and toilets. You will have passed the path (left) to the Lighthouse once parked. Go through the gate, then up the steps to view inland to the Raukumara Range and seaward to East Island. From time to time the gate is chained and locked. Your access is by climbing over the gate. During the busy season some travellers drive through the gate and that is why it is locked.
RELATIONSHIP GUIDE
PHOTOGRAPHER'S GUIDE
HISTORIAN'S GUIDE
Historical register in Hicks Bay includes:
PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY GUIDE
TREKKERS GUIDE
MOUNT HIKURANGI
The Hikurangi track is located on Pakihiroa Station 30km from the turn-off from Highway 35 (Tapuaeroa Road). This track runs through private land and may be closed from time to time. Inquirys for access 06-8648660. More information about Mount Hikurangi can be found on DOC
and Ngati Porou.
IJC HELICOPTER FLIGHT VIDEO ON YOU TUBE
TUBULAR CONCRETIONS and HUGE PRINTS
Investigate nature attractions of ancient plumbing from the Miocene-millions of years ago - era when Antarctica was covered by ice and the northern continents were cooling rapidly. Tubular concretions subsurface cold seep plumbing of Miocene Sediment can be discovered along the foreshore to the East Cape Lighthouse tour. After your Lighthouse tour go to Google Earth and pinpoint Matakoa Point across the bay from the motel. In the book "Lost World of Giants" by Jonathan Gray he tells us "On the Matakaoa foreshore, near Te Araroa, were found preserved prints of a huge animal. The prints extended for some distance. Some were 28 inches (70 centimeters) in breadth." In Llyod Lawsons "History of Hicks Bay" he writes of the same prints. Matakaoa Cultural Tours can take you to their sacred places.
Area Brochure Page 1; Page 2; Page 3
You can enjoy bush walks on private property around the lodge. These walks are for experienced walkers, on a bluff and steep and not for those who do not want to get dirty. Leave your jandals at home - to keep you safe, proper walking shoes are required on steep tracks. The waterfall and three hour bush walks are closed at present.
GLOWWORM GROTTO
Five minutes return. Go after dark to the glowworm theatre dug down into the earth. It has to be dark to see their magical glow! Watch the giant walking sticks perform in the branches left and right stage. Torches available from reception.
CHOPPERS TRACK
45 minutes return. This old maori track takes you zig zag down the ancient bluff to Onepoto Beach.
ONEPOTO BEACH
Share, support, embrace one another while experiencing a walk down Choppers Track to the beach. Pretend you can see Zachariah Hicks telescope sighting the Bay in 1769! Give him a wave. Tell him this place already has a name "Wharekahika".
GIANT PURIRI
Together investigate new cultures to see what they have preserved on a ten to fifteen minutes return walk to an impressive Puriri tree the size of a small car.
WORLDS SUNRISE FROM THE LODGE
Create and build strong vibrant bonds in the peaceful early hours of sunrise from the Lodge. Take a walk or short drive up the hill to the Scenic Lookout (brown signage), or walk part way down to the Glowworm Grotto. The first corner is a nice view of the sunrise looking out to sea.
HICK BAY WHARF AND FISHING
There's fish, fish and more fish! Get your fresh catch from the rocky ledges around the Wharf. We sell bait, fishing supplies and fishing poles at our small shop on site. Getting There: From Highway 35 turn off at Wharf Road and carry on over a one lane bridge. Continue past the old freezing works to the Wharf car park. For more information on rules and quota see MAF. Ranfurley Banks.
TE WAHA O REREKOHU
New Zealand's most ancient pohutukawa tree, more than 600 years old is found in the tiny coastal settlement of Te Araroa. And stop into the regions art gallery, Gallery 57 Te RuruKainga and hunt up some unique and authentic local art on Waione Road, Te Araroa.
EAST CAPE LIGHTHOUSE GUIDE
Getting There public access: To reach the easernmost point of mainland New Zealand, travel the coast on a sealed and unsealed road from Te Araroa. Then pass several tubular concretions of ancient plumbing and follow the foreshore to the car park and toilets. You will have passed the path (left) to the Lighthouse once parked. Go through the gate, then up the steps to view inland to the Raukumara Range and seaward to East Island. From time to time the gate is chained and locked. Your access is by climbing over the gate. During the busy season some travellers drive through the gate and that is why it is locked.
RELATIONSHIP GUIDE
PHOTOGRAPHER'S GUIDE
HISTORIAN'S GUIDE
Historical register in Hicks Bay includes:
PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY GUIDE
TREKKERS GUIDE
MOUNT HIKURANGI
The Hikurangi track is located on Pakihiroa Station 30km from the turn-off from Highway 35 (Tapuaeroa Road). This track runs through private land and may be closed from time to time. Inquirys for access 06-8648660. More information about Mount Hikurangi can be found on DOC
and Ngati Porou.
IJC HELICOPTER FLIGHT VIDEO ON YOU TUBE
TUBULAR CONCRETIONS and HUGE PRINTS
Investigate nature attractions of ancient plumbing from the Miocene-millions of years ago - era when Antarctica was covered by ice and the northern continents were cooling rapidly. Tubular concretions subsurface cold seep plumbing of Miocene Sediment can be discovered along the foreshore to the East Cape Lighthouse tour. After your Lighthouse tour go to Google Earth and pinpoint Matakoa Point across the bay from the motel. In the book "Lost World of Giants" by Jonathan Gray he tells us "On the Matakaoa foreshore, near Te Araroa, were found preserved prints of a huge animal. The prints extended for some distance. Some were 28 inches (70 centimeters) in breadth." In Llyod Lawsons "History of Hicks Bay" he writes of the same prints. Matakaoa Cultural Tours can take you to their sacred places.
Area Brochure Page 1; Page 2; Page 3
