Piha Valley Walk




The Piha Valley Walk is a relaxing 2 hour stroll close to Piha beach in the Waitakere Ranges (30min drive from Auckland City).

Map

We started at the Stedfast Park Camp and walked up the McKenzie valley and along the Maungaroa Ridge to the Look out rock (108).



Start

The Start of the track.



Forrest

Secondary forrest on the way up to McKenzie junction.



PihaValleyView

Form the top of the Maungaroa Ridge there are beautiful views of the Piha valley.



PihaBeach

Piha beach is very popular with surfers, but swimming can be dangerous because of underwater currents.



LookOutPoint

A bunch of happy trampers on the look-out rock (#108 on the map) :-)



Tree

On the way down from the look-out rock we saw this interestingly shaped tree truck.



Clouds

Clouds



Flowers

Flowers in the sand dunes.






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