Tokatoka, a Peak with a Point...

(photograph © Kiwidutch)

Now I get to see if anyone was paying attention to stuff I write here LOL…

Do you remember when I was showing you around (a little bit of) Northland that I mentioned a pointy shaped hill that was deep into the background of one of the photos?

Well…  It’s called Tokatoka Peak (sounds like the island name of the Pippy Longstocking’s South Sea Island adventures , but indeed it’s a proper Maori name).

It’s an interesting geographic feature becuase this hill looks very different depending from which side you are viewing it.

It’s not uniformly pointed in the same way that a standing bottle is pointed…

…rather there’s a ” back side” that is less steep and enables you to drive a really decent way up, and then there’s a track leading to the summit. My friend has told us that there’s a steep but fairly short walk to the top and great views to be had so it’s well worth a visit.  Her girls have been here many a time so they navigate us onto the turn-0ff road from the main highway without any problem. If you are a visitor you will probably not have a local to guide you, the hill is of course rather obvious but just for reference,  the road you need to get around to the track branches off at the building and sign in my next photos. (pity the only photo of the building I have has been taken on the side road itself looking back at the main road.)

(photograph © Kiwidutch)

(photograph © Kiwidutch)

(photograph © Kiwidutch)

(photograph © Kiwidutch)

(photograph © Kiwidutch)

(photograph © Kiwidutch)