A hike in THE WINTERLESS NORTH
“BE PREPARED for your lungs and legs to burn and your knees to cry out in pain.”
That sums up the challenging Cape Brett walk in the Far North that has tested many a hiker on its gruelling hills and sheer ridgelines.
It’s one of the recollections Whangarei woman Katrina Gysberts has of the time when she and her six friends walked the track which spans from the tiny beach-front settlement of Rawhiti to the Cape Brett lighthouse.
She also remembers vast oceans, amazing birdlife and “views that blew us away”.
Which is what draws people to Northland’s most epic trek and makes the hard
