Hikurangi

Hikurangi accommodation makes a quiet rural base on the main road north of Whangārei, in dairy country that grew up around coal mines.

Limestone outcrops stand in the paddocks at Waro Reserve on the edge of town, grey rock against grass, with a lake in the old flooded pit behind them. Farm cottages and baches nearby break up the drive north, with Whangārei fifteen minutes south and the coast over the hills to the east.