North Island Weekend Hikes – Moo and Moochelle

Category: North Island Weekend Hikes

Tutaenui Reservoir, MANAWATU

Track facts: 4km 45min-1hour Easy track but loose gravel so trail shoes recommended Kid friendly Dogs on leashes and horses welcome This gem of a walk is found just outside Marton, a small rural town of 5,000 in the Manawatu, only a 35min drive from Whanganui or Palmerston North. To get there, drive to the […]

Waitanguru Falls, WAITOMO

Well, it’s been a hot minute thanks to COVID-19 lockdowns, but I finally made it to waterfall number 7 of the year (just in time before the country went back into level 2 and Auckland went into lockdown) . If you’ve read some of my other posts you might know that one of the goals […]

Putangirua Pinnacles & Cape Palliser Lighthouse, WELLINGTON

Cape Palliser is the most southern point of New Zealand’s North Island. It’s a decent 2 hour drive from Wellington, so you need at least a full day to make the most of the area. We left Wellington after a quick coffee and breakfast, road tripped to the cape, did a few short day hikes […]

Waitahinga Dam, WHANGANUI

This is one of the best day hikes we’ve done since moving to Whanganui. The great thing about it is that you can do the full hike down to the dam and back, or a shorter walk around the other trails. With a canopy of Native New Zealand forest (some original tawa and rimu trees, […]

Tawhai Falls, TONGARIRO NATIONAL PARK

This year (2018) I set the goal for myself to learn how to snowboard in the winter, and learn how to surf in the summer. In the summer time of 2017/18 I had my second ever surfing lesson (my first being at age 15 ) while on Christmas holiday in and around Cape Town, South […]