We didn’t have a clear destination in mind today so after what could well be our last shop of the trip, we set off heading north.
Mangawhai Heads Beach. The water temperature here was 19 degrees Celsius and the air temperature was probably similar without the wind chill factor. Nevertheless there were a few hardy souls attempting to sunbake on the beach, even though there was little sun.
As we were getting hungry and lunchtime was approaching we thought Marsden Point would be a nice place to stop for our lunch break. We were ignorant the fact that Marsden Point was also home to an oil refinery as well as a log and wood chip export facility.
Then we thought we would go to One Tree Point for lunch not knowing that we would have to travel through a wasteland of canal developments and project homes almost as far as the eye could see. They call it Marsden City a developers dream but an environmental nightmare.
Whangarei Falls
Zig-Zag New Zealand 