Mangawhai Walking Weekend

MANGAWHAI WALKING FESTIVAL

Periodicity: annual

Location:  Mangawhai, Northland, New Zealand

Time of the year: March / April

Duration: 3 days

Number of Walks:  about fifty walks (guided)

1st edition:  1999

2010 edition:  11th - 14th March 2010 
2010 edition programme: http://res.nz.eventdirector.net/SPNOR/SITES/208/ZUSER/Mangawhai%20Walking%20Weekend%2010.pdf

2011 edition: 30th March - 2nd April 2011
2011 edition programme: http://www.mangawhaiwalkingweekend.co.nz/programmes.htm 

2012 edition: 28th March - 1st April 2012
2012 edition programme: http://www.mangawhaiwalkingweekend.co.nz/programmes.htm


Thursday 29th March
Dunns Bush Track – Puhoi

Friday 30th March
Troubadour Trail 
Choose your time   2.30pm – 3.00pm – 3.30pm

Saturday 31st March
Brynderwyns Bush Tramp to Marunui Trig – a special treat
Departs: 9.30am, 5 hours - Grade 4-5

Doggy Walk - a walk with your best friend
Departs: 9.45am, 3hrs - Grade 2

Estuary to the Ocean – time out
Departs: 9.20am, 4-5hrs - Grade 3

How the Spirit of Mangawhai Saved the Harbour – community challenge
Departs 9.45am, 4-5hrs - Grade 3                                     

Kaipara Explore - variety, old bush, history
Departs: 9.15am, 5hrs - Grade 3

Kayaking – make a change
Departs: 8.30am, 4-5hrs - Grade 2

Mangawhai Cliff Top Walk - a very popular walk
Departs: 9.15am, 4-5hrs - Grade 4

Natural Treasures - of Te Arai
Departs: 9.45am, 4hrs - Grade 3+

Pakiri Cliff Walk - get out your camera
Departs: 9.30am, 4-5hrs - Grade 4

Panoramic Mangawhai – take in the tops
Departs: 9.15am, 4hrs - Grade 4

Ramblers’ Food Experience – exploring the ways to harvest the land
Departs: 9.00am, 5-6hrs - Grade 3

Bike Ride - family fun
Departs: 9.30am, 3hrs - All cyclists

A Clayton’s Walk – an outing for the unfit
Depart: 10.00am, 3hrs - Grade 1

Dome Tearooms to Govan Wilson Road – an outing for the very fit
Departs: 8.00am, 8hrs - Grade 5+

Thornleigh Farm Walk - the evolving landscape
Departs: 9.30am, 3-4hrs - Grade 3

WaipuCaves Experience - an experience of a lifetime (on the bucket list)
Departs: 9.30am, 5hrs - Grade 4+

Waipu Coastal Trail – new and natural
Departs: 9.15am, 4-5hrs - Grade 4

Sunday 1st April
Bald Rock and Pukekaroro – that’s the hill on SH1near Kaiwaka
Departs: 9.45am, 3-4hrs - Grade 3

Brynderwyn Trig - A trek not for the faint-hearted
Departs: 9.30am, 4-5hrs - Grade 4+

Estuary to the Ocean – time out
Departs: 9.40am, 4-5hrs - Grade 3

Geology – the earth has a history
Departs: 10.15am, 3-4hrs - Grade 2+

Historic Ramble – relive the 1900s
Depart: 9.45am, 4hrs - Grade 1

Home & Garden Tour - a personal tour of Mangawhai
Departs: 9.30am, 4hrs - Grade 1

Honeylea Farm – with Devonshire teas
Departs: 9.15am, 3-4hrs - Grade 4

Tomarata Lakes to the Beach – discover the serenity of isolation
Departs: 9.45am, 3-4hrs - Grade 4

Logues Bush - local native bush
Departs: 10.00, 3hrs - Grade 2

Mangawhai Cliff Top Walk – a very popular walk
Departs: 9.30am, 4-5hrs - Grade 4

From Bush to Bach -  Marunui Conservation, King Road
Departs: 9.30am, 3-4hrs - Grade 3-4

Photography Walk – take your best shot
Departs: 10.15am, 3-4hrs - Grade 2

Romance on the Kaipara – literature and history   
Departs: 9.30am, 4hrs - Grade 2-3

Hills and Vales of Te Arai – in early morning the valleys hold the veil of mist or arai
Departs: 10.00am, 3-4hrs - Grade 4

Waipu Caves - advanced level with abseiling
Depart: 9.20am, 4-5hrs - Grade 5

A Clayton’s Walk – an outing for the unfit
Departs: 10.00am, 3hrs - Grade 1


Number of participants (average):

Notable walks:

Walks for disabled persons?

Price:  Paid

Notes: 
Thursday & Friday Events:
http://www.mangawhaiwalkingweekend.co.nz/thursday-and-friday-events.htm

Sponsoring: Yes

Organization:

Contact:
The Event Co-ordinator
Mangawhai Walking Weekend
Staniforth Road
RD 5 Wellsford

Ph: (09) 431-5096
Fax: (09) 431-5063

mangawhaiwalkingweekend@xtra.co.nz
 
Website:
http://www.mangawhaiwalkingweekend.co.nz/

Facebook page:  http://www.facebook.com/mangawhaiwalkingweekend

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