Visiting Cape Reinga a week back, which is the top of our State Highway 1 and furthest North the public can visit by road. (North Cape, on the North-East point is slightly further up, but no public access as it's a research station)
So Cape Reinga features a lighthouse, and thousands of visitors a year.
It's quite crazy to witness the green Tasman Sea, collide with the bluer Pacific Ocean, and swirl around offshore.
The wash from large colliding waves can be seen off shore
Sunset from Cape Reinga, down the 165m cliff
Cape Reinga at sunset
It's a very rural area, with the closest town being 21km away.
Just a couple bays Eastward is the brilliant Tapotupotu Bay, which offers a cheap government camp ground (DOC), looking Northward from the tip of NZ
Few tents just out of sight along the right side of beach







