Romantic Northland.

Interest begins at the very tip of the North Island—at Parenga, where the godwits and other migratory birds take wing for far Siberia.

The neck of this long peninsula, known as “The Winterless North,” has the broad, smooth Ninety-mile Beach on the west side, surely one of the world's best marine parades.

Southward, near Dargaville, is the Trounson Kauri Forest, dedicated to the State. Here are mighty kauri kings whose huge smooth columns, like the pillars of a temple, have held up their great evergreen canopies for many centuries.

The east coast includes the entrancing inlet of Whangaroa, remarkable for the cathedral-forms of its hills and wooded ferny coves; historic Bay of Islands, with its relics of old Maori wars, the early missions and the beginnings of British colonisation.