Tourist attraction
Karekare Falls
Huia, Karekare 0772
Thirty-metre bush waterfall named for white flax fibres, tumbling into a plunge pool near a black-sand coast.
This guide to Karekare Falls on Auckland's west coast opens with the sound of the water itself, the source of its Maori name, Te Ahoaho. It traces the fortified village that once stood on the headland above, home to Te Kawerau a Maki, and the 1826 Musket Wars raid led by Hone Heke that emptied the pa and left the ground under tapu. Stand at the base of the pool, facing the spray, to listen.
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