About a 5hr walk loop, or you can hire a 4x4 and cruise the sand dunes, ship wrecks and light house in style!

New Zealand has 30 lighthouses on the mainland, but few people have found this one amongst the sand dunes – a proverbial needle in a haystack. If you are holidaying near Dargaville, you can bag this beacon from a bygone era. The old lighthouse is hidden in high sandhills 7km down the beach, on the northern shore of Kaipara Harbour