Beach blast

[DMNTD:Me]

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

[paturoa]

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)

[Buddy L]

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.

[paturoa]

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