From Kerikeri to Karikari

Leaving the Bay of Islands for Northland’s white-sand peninsula: A return to the top end of Aotearoa New Zealand’s North Island

Mary Jane Walker
A Maverick Traveller
4 min readSep 8, 2023

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AFTER the Bay of Islands and Kerikeri, which I blogged about in February, the next major attraction on the coast, off State Highway 10, is Taupō Bay, within the wider Whangaroa Bay, which you can see at the right of the map below. It’s a bit off the beaten track, but it’s well worth it.

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Mary Jane Walker
A Maverick Traveller

Traveller, journalist, author of 18 books and of 300 blog posts on Medium and on my website a-maverick.com.