Dividing the Bay of Plenty from East Coast/Hawke’s Bay, the Huiarau Range forms a convoluted forested ridge through Te Urewera and adjacent Whirinaki Forest Park. Beginning somewhere in the complicated morass of bush ridges in the west of Whirinaki Forest Park, the range snakes its way north eastward, making numerous dog-legs, until petering out in […]
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