t110_Tawharanui Regional Park (9/02/2013)

Tawharanui Regional Park

Set on a remote peninsula, Tawharanui Regional Park boasts some of the Auckland region's most beautiful white sand beaches, rolling pastures,  native coastal forest ,  shingled bays, and stunning rock formation coastline.

Starting from Anchor Bay, Walking Ecology Trail, North Coast Track, down to the beach to Takatu Point and  returning along coastline back to Anchor Bay

Anchor Bay beach scenes – few persons in the morning. A bustling beach in the afternoon….  

20 persons turned up today’s walking

 



Ecology Trail – an elegant  track with dense bush

North Coast Track – passing over rolling pastures
 

Heading towards tip of the peninsula. Both sides with good views.

Heading towards Takatu Point lookout

 

Good views from the lookout

Returning back from the lookout and heading towards beach
 

Stunning views



Down to the beach



along coastline towards the beach of Takatu Point



Lots of beautiful scenes along the coastline

 

encountering lots of rock hopping

Stunning scenes



We had lunch where interesting rock formation surrounded



super scenes nearby

There was a serious scrambling and crossing a width gap if going further.  Some keen trampers carrying on and others returning via the coastline to the Anchor Bay carpark.

Anchor Bay scenes



Flat rock at the Anchor Bay



Anchor Bay scenes

Children happily playing in the pools

Bustling beach at the Anchor Bay in the afternoon

Michael Buble麥克 布雷 - Crazy Love

t109_long bay with Mikey and Jamie

Long Bay Regional Park

Long Bay Regional Park is a favourite for many Aucklanders, attracting well over one million visitors a year. It provides a backdrop to the great stretch of beach.  Safe swimming, a wealth of shady picnic spots, plenty of open space for games and disabled-friendly playground make this a great place for all the family to enjoy. Also it has nature trail and coastal walk for exploring.

We walked per the red marking and children had a lot of playing at all-access playground.

Nature Trail – a 30 minutes loop track going through wet land, native trees and farmland.

elegant track
 



several giant puriri trees along the way

interesting puriri tree

good photo spot

 

 

Vaughan homestead - The 1863 historical homestead owned by Mr. George Vaughan and his descendants for around 100 years and taking over 12,000 hours of voluntary work for restoring.

This building was used for storing the gum brought there by the gumdiggers in the area

Homestead surrounding

starting the coastal walk

elegant scenes at the estuary of Vaughan stream

Long Bay beach – viewing from a high point on the track.  The great stretch of beach, a kilometre-long sandy beach, that gives the park its name

exploring the World War II gun emplacement

excellent views – viewing from the gun emplacement

heading towards Granny's Bay

views to the Hauraki Gulf

interesting withered trunks at the Granny's Bay

excellant photo spots

children playing with the going and coming of waves

footbridge over Vaughan stream

lunch at a pavilion nearby the playground

Variety - The Children’s Charity Playground which encourages children of all abilities to play together. The all-access playground includes rubber mats for easy wheelchair access, a space net, swings and a see-saw. It was open in October 2002.

Playing at a music station

 

 

photo at the Photo Frame in the park

Long Bay beach是一熱門海灘 非假日已經有很多人潮 週末假日更是人潮洶湧 年達百萬人造訪這個Park  怪不得建商要在鄰近興建2500戶住宅  已開始要動工了.
Up 2500 homes in 160ha. 23ha for  reserves to form a green buffer.  The smallest land for a home up to 400 square metres….

Elizabethan Serenade (伊麗莎白小夜曲)