Ruakaka
Waipu Poor Knights Islands — Dive and Snorkle by Charter or by private boat. Note: Can not land on the islands unless with a permit
Whangarei is only 70 kilometres from the Bay of Islands and is the primary gateway to the rest of Northland. Alternatively you can take the road to Dargaville and travel north from there through the Kauri forests and along the rugged west coast beaches to Opononi and the Hokianga.
Do the Hokianga
just 90 minutes drive from Whangarei Mangungu Mission House Historic Site — site of the biggest signing of the Treaty of Waitangi Koutu Boulders — biggest concretions in the world Sand Dunes — fantastic sandstone sculptures on top of dune opposite Opononi Wairere Boulders Nature Park — an enormous basalt flow just south of Horeke Omahuta Kauri Sanctuary — see 5 of the 12 biggest Kauri trees in an undisturbed healthy forest Tane Mahuta — Lord of the Forest {most visited Kauri tree in NZ}