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Private Tour - Muriwai Beach & Wine Tasting
Private Tour - Muriwai Beach & Wine Tasting
Muriwai Beach & Gannet Colony
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Highlights
Venture to Auckland’s spectacular west coast for a full-day experience combining dramatic landscapes, native wildlife, premium wine, and delicious food.
Travel to Muriwai Beach, famous for its rugged black-sand coastline, powerful ocean views, and impressive coastal scenery. Visit different lookouts offering panoramic views across Muriwai Beach, the Tasman Sea, and Motutara Island, with plenty of opportunities to capture memorable photos.
Continue to the renowned gannet colony, where you can observe these remarkable seabirds and learn about their seasonal nesting and migration. Take in the dramatic clifftop surroundings and breathtaking views along the coastline.
After your coastal adventure, visit a local winery to enjoy a premium wine tasting followed by a delicious lunch in a relaxed setting.
Combining wildlife, coastal sightseeing, wine, and local flavours, this experience offers a memorable way to enjoy the natural beauty of Auckland’s west coast.
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Auckland & Beyond Tours
10 minsAdmission Ticket FreeMeet Auckland and Beyond Tours in Auckland CBD to begin your tourMuriwai Beach
2 hoursAdmission Ticket FreeDiscover one of New Zealand's famous black sand beaches on the west coast. Muriwai is an impressive coastline with cliff-top trails to a huge gannet colony, with easy access and viewing platforms that let you get up close. A windswept rugged coastline stretching 60 kilometres, and interrupted only by streams and rivers, makes Muriwai one of New Zealand's most spectacular black-sand surf beaches.Muriwai Gannet Colony
2 hoursAdmission Ticket FreeMuriwai's gannet colony is a one hour drive from the centre of Auckland. About 1,200 pairs of gannets nest here from August to March each year. The nests are just centimetres apart. It's an air traffic controller's nightmare, but somehow the birds have it under control. Those coming in to land must glide over the squawking raised beaks of their neighbours - so getting it wrong can be painful. These two-and-a-half kilogram birds have a wingspan of two metres, and their mastery of the onshore updrafts is impressive to say the least. Once airborne, the young gannets leave the colony and cross the Tasman Sea to Australia. A few years later, surviving birds return to secure a nest site at the colony. The views from the colony are very impressive. Muriwai Beach extends 60 kilometres to the north - a line of black sand between the thundering surf and the sand hills. Far below, enthusiastic surfers look like seals on the large ocean swells.
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USD 429.51
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