If you make it here, welcome to one of Northlands(in my opinion) best beaches. The gravel road puts alot of people off when coming in from Hikurangi, most end up continuing back down the Tututkaka coast. The family spend alot of time here during summer(many days during the week work is cut short for a relaxing afternoon/evening here). Its a great for all including kids. Good surf but also good for the younger children. It also marks the start of the Whananaki to Sandy Bay walkway - The track is mostly hilly and crosses through both farmland and DOC land. You should be physically fit, have good walking shoes and take plenty of food and drinks with you for this walk. It is approximately 12km and 4 hours which includes cache time and to stop at the monument in memory of the freighter Capitaine Bougainville which caught fire and sank off this coast in September 1975. 16 people died in the mountainous waves and cold, as lifeboats capsized. The Track then continues on to McAuslin Road at Sandy Bay.
Cache is a egg but has bison attached. Egg attached firmly - best to leave attached and remove bottom of egg and bottom of bison with log. Please replace carefully as found - don't want to give kids too much chocolate to replace egg! Egg able to store some TB's also.(Some stealth maybe required more in summer months)