Best places: Nature preserves in Whau, New Zealand

Site of Auckland's highest volcano, with spectacular city & harbour views & a large crater.

Tour agency providing educational rides aboard a marine research vessel to see whales & dolphins.

👍👍 Beautiful park area with a nice playground. Plenty of space and a huge beach at low tide. Really nice atmosphere.

👍👍 One of Auckland’s most underrated maunga. A gorgeous walk, and one that is getting better with ongoing improvement works to the pathways - both making it a more comfortable walk and also preserving the cones themselves. Great views out over the Manukau Harbour.

👍👍 Didn't even know these walks existed! We enjoyed our lockdown walks here. Nice and quiet and close to the ocean. Simply beautiful!

Native forestland on the bay, with a playground, hiking trails, picnic tables & birdwatching.

👍👍 It's really nice place. Really good for summer. We went there during matariki kite festival. It was fabulous.

👍👍 Quiet little tucked away beach until high tide.....then it becomes a social highlight!

👍👍 Great place to walk the dogs and get some fresh air.

👍👍 Can't go wrong with this cove.. It's beautiful but... Sad how public use this coves parking area as an alcohol park and dump cans, bottles around.. Council always clean up but hey no gates, open and no one monitoring weekend late binges of public with no home to have alcohol... The cove have vandal...

👍👍 Beautiful area, peaceful and mostly shaded except along the Sylvania Ave-Himalaya Reserve section, of course. Easy uphill & downhill walks; took me an hour to stroll from the entrance on Canberra Avenue to the exit through Manukau Domain on Halsey Drive.

👍👍 Good spot fishing

👍👍 Great place to pull off May Rd when your car breaks down 🤗

👍 My first track in 2021. This one is very easy to walk, especially for hiking beginners to start with. 20 minutes away from the city downtown in South. Basically it's walking surrounded the Wayercare waste water facility. No impressive view though. Due to some ongoing projects original tracks were...

👍👍 Nice football pitch. Was happy to play here.

👍 Great little play ground for little people. Quite and easy with easy parking and good views of the harbour.

👍👍 Maltese Shitzu named Snaga gets so excited when he sees the park from the car window. He loves this park so much, he can't wait to get of car... all the sound of barking and crying... and teary eyes. Once he's on the ground every rock he has to do several markings... and probably at the rocks for 10...

👍👍 Good parking, relaxing atmosphere

👍👍 Good quiet spot in town for a walk or run. Connects to jaggers bush for those that want a longer run. Nice at sunset time.

👍 Alittle different as to date as there is on going works and ground moving works Wil update post on changes