Double up (Whangarei Heads) Traditional Cache
Double up (Whangarei Heads)
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Heading up the hillside you will follow the winding track to the tip of the track, if you are game that is. On the way up you follow the orange track markers and when you reach gz you will find 2 of them.
The Bream Head/Te Whara track follows an ancient Maori trail from Urquharts Bay to Ocean Beach. Te Whara was the principal wife of the rangatira Manaia.
A reasonable level of fitness, skill and experience is needed to walk the main tracks at Bream Head Scenic Reserve. The hill access leading onto the Mt Lion, Ocean Beach and Peach Cove tracks are all steep.
A wild ocean at Bream Head
From Urquharts Bay, the track climbs steeply up Mount Lion until it reaches the ridge line. Once on the ridge the track becomes undulating and easy going. The ridge track eventually intersects with the Peach Cove track. From there you climb to the Te Whara / Bream Head summit. From the summit the track heads down to Ocean Beach and passes a WWII naval radar station.
The track passes through some of the best coastal forest in the North Island. At the Bream Head summit, you can enjoy a magnificent coastal panorama taking in Motukokako (Cape Brett) in the north to Tawharanui (Cape Rodney) in the south and includes the offshore islands Tawhiti Rahi and Aorangi (Poor Knights), Marotere (Hen and Chickens group), Hauturu (Little Barrier) and Aotea (Great Barrier) in the far east.
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