I certainly enjoyed walking on the peninsula. One af­ternoon I drove down Karetai Rd—in the straight-but­steep category—and strolled down a grassy path to Maori Head. The cliffs running north-east from here towards Boulder Beach are spectacular. Probably a couple of hun­dred metres high, they are volcanic and craggy, and the implacable rollers tear in futility at their bases. Seabirds, tiny specks, wheel about in the distance, providing scale for the vastness of the bluffs.