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    Nice pic's 'n vid mate.
    Pouto Point is an awesome place for sure. We used to do a lot of 4WD'n down that way a fair bit.
    Could drive from my old house on Opononi...down the beach,through a forest(Waipoua) and back onto the beach before crossing a farmers land at Manganui Bluff. From there is was yeeeeeee haaaaaa!
    You're right re those sand dunes too....bloody awesome!
    A mate had some sort of 350 2 stroke racing quad we used to thrash out...evil little thing it was.
    BTW....should only take 2.5 hours tops from central Auckland to get there too

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    Just got back from 4 days staying at the Glinks camping ground with the family. The poor KDX got a thrashing on the beach!

    I went down the beach and had a good play on the dunes, but was being a bit of a nana as I was by myself. Note to self, get the GPS coordinates for the lakes next time as I couldn't find them.

    Not far from Mahuta gap, there were several bikes climbing the cliff face. I had a go but couldn't even get half way up. Said to Mrs P that I need a new bike and I didn't get a no (not sure if that one is a trap! - lol)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Albert
    Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe

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    tryed at Xmas to get up the hill by Mahuta gap, failed for the first time , but when you get to the top, their are rolling sand dunes along the top of the cliffs. And also a awsome veiw of up and down the beach.
    The lakes are way down by pouto further. Lucky i had my dad with me, as i had plowed in to some quick sand around the lakes, and need the hand to get the old KDX220 out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Buddy L View Post
    The lakes are way down by pouto further.
    I've been to them before, but couldn't find them this time.

    I had a look on google earth and there is a whole piece of low res where I think the northern most lakes are. The ones about 24km south of Glinks are cleary visible.

    Glinks camp 36 04 45.9 S 173 51 28.85 E
    Mahuta gap cliffs to ride up 36 00 23.04 S 173 47 27.11 E
    Visible lakes on GE 36 16 03.33 174 00 29.77
    Quote Originally Posted by Albert
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