KARIKARI BAY
Karikari Lodge
Coastal Holiday Lodge • Sub-tropical New ZealandKARIKARI BAY
Things to do and see
Karikari Peninsula
This is a playground for those who just love beaches and is perfect for young families or fishermen. Each beach or bay has its own distinct personality and special character.
These vary from sheltered bays with fine white sand, such as Matai Bay and Rangiputa, to rugged rocky coastline with pounding surf. Tokerau Beach is perfect for kite surfing and sand yachting and for wave surfing when the wind and tides are right. Please view our photo gallery.
Or you can just relax and soak up the sun in this subtropical paradise.
Carrington Club and Karikari Estate Winery
This world class golf resort is located on the Karikari peninsula and rests between a private four kilometre white sand beach and the 65 acre mountainside vineyards of the winery. The club's facilities include an 18 hole golf course, dining and lounge facilities, library, tennis courts, swimming pool, billiard room and pro shop. A platter of excellent Northland cuisine is available daily for lunch at the winery.
Play Golf
Whangaroa Golf Club
located 15 kilometres east of Doubtless Bay on State Highway 10
Kaitaia Golf Club
located at Ahipara at the bottom of Ninety Mile Beach
Go Diving
Diving and snorkelling in Doubtless Bay is superb and under-rated. The local skippers know the top spots and can take you to them. Collect mussels, scallops and, of course, crayfish. The main dive centre is located within walking distance of Karikari Lodge.
Go Fishing
Enjoy fishing Doubtless Bay from Tokerau Beach, Rangiputa or Mangonui in fully equipped, safe boats. Catch some of the many species found in this beautiful bay.
Lady Di Charters
Freespool
Fishing Charters
Pisces Charters
Go Kite Surfing
Tokerau Beach or Rangiputa Beach are perfect for kite surfing and one of the world's leading schools is based here in summer
Go Quad Biking
Marvel at the majesty of the bleak landscape that is the sand dunes south
of Ahipara on the West Coast. Take a guided walk or drive and experience
the dunes up close.
Tuatua Tours
Ninety Mile Beach and Cape Reinga
Best visited by organised tours which depart daily from Tokerau Beach. Trips are either by 4WD Landcruiser or small bus with knowledgeable local drivers. The tour includes a drive along Ninety Mile Beach and the Te Paki quicksand stream, a visit to the Cape Reinga lighthouse and the often turbulent confluence of the Pacific Ocean and the Tasman Sea, a silica-sand beach and a picnic lunch and swimming stop at delightful Tapotupotu Bay.
Swamp Palace Cinema
Visit the Swamp Palace, the tiny cinema of some 68 seats, which shows up to date movies four nights a week, plus matinees. Only the "better" movies are shown, with no advertisements, and a great, personal introduction by Richard, who runs the place, a converted building hauled inland from Cable Bay to Oruru, about eight kilometres south west of Taipa.
Butler Point Whaling Museum and Historic Homestead
Butler Point is a privately owned 26 hectare property at Hihi - across the harbour from Mangonui. Over the last three decades the proprietors have developed the property into one of the Far North's most fascinating heritage tourism destinations. Captain Butler's House dates back to the 1840s and is furnished in early Colonial and Victorian styles. The Whaling Museum displays a full range of authentic harpoons and a fully-equipped whaleboat as used from the whale ships.
Discover the history of The Far North and the gum digging revolution that shaped the landscape, the people and the local industries of our past as well as our modern day lives. View the maze of giant gum holes that reveal extraordinary kauri trees from prehistoric times and explore the mystery that caused the destruction of these ancient forests. Situated about 45 kilometres west of Tokerau Beach, off State Highway 1, Gumdiggers Park is a four minute detour off the main route to Cape Reinga.
Located at Aurere, a few kilometres east of Inland Road on State Highway 10, experience a unique opportunity to view a privately-owned collection of vintage cars and machinery used in farming dating back to the early 1900s. Accumulated and restored by an avid vintage enthusiast over the last 40 years and covering over 1100 square metres of display area, there is a wide range of tractors, stationary engines, vintage cars and pioneer farm and domestic equipment.